"My career as a Dietitian in a hospital setting has really revolved around patient education because, let's face it, eating habit are hard to break and the only way to really drive home the effort to change eating habits is through education. In my current job a few years back, I was working with a morbidly obese patient with heart and respiratory problems and diet das a primary cause as diagnosed by his physician. After meeting with the patient, his diet consisted of processes foods and fast food almost 100% of the time and this had been the effect of many years of living this lifestyle. In this patient's case, education had to start with how to cook and prepare healthy meals along with the normal education of what processed food does to the human body. By being really the first person to ever teach him how to cook healthy meals at home, progress was made within just mere weeks by him dropping double digit pounds per week for the first two months. In his case, learning the how and the why together were important to his success."