Kaiser Permanente: Offering Culturally Sensitive Counseling for Weight Loss
Featuring: Dr. Jed Weissberg, Senior Vice President for Hospitals,
Quality, and Care Delivery
Kaiser’s health care teams and
nutritionists are familiar with the many cultures in their communities, and
they take cultural preferences into account
when making nutrition recommendations.
“The pediatricians ask us what can they do with a kid who’s twice their desirable weight when they see the parents who are also at 100 pounds over the desired weight, and they see the parents bringing in soda pop and chips as the snack for the kid while they’re waiting..Now we can provide support to the physicians so that they can make an immediate referral for exercise counseling, for nutritional counseling, for group support…”