Food Exchange List and Dietary Management of Non-Communicable Diseases in Cultural Perspective

ABSTRACT

This review focuses at highlighting the importance of Food Exchange List in cultural perspective, as an effective dietary tool to help individuals' manage their dietary modifications in relation to non communicable diseases whilst specifying measures that can help improve the quality of Food Exchange Lists for combating various non communicable diseases and addressing adherence related issues to specialized diets. A search was done using PubMed and Google Scholar till June 2016. Search terms used were food exchange list AND disease, diet AND non-communicable diseases. We included only studies that discussed Food Exchange List [PEL] in relation to non-communicable diseases; in addition to factors like cultural relevance and adherence