Nutritional Risk Clause Samples

Nutritional Risk. The last criterion requires that a physician, nurse, dietitian, nutritionist, or other health professional must deem WIC recipients at nutritional risk. Nutritional risk is evaluated by measuring height (or length), weight, a serum sample for anemia (except infants under 9 months), and a historical review of medical charts and diet.15 WIC recipients must meet one of these five major types of nutritional risk: “ 1) Detrimental or abnormal nutritional conditions detectable by biochemical or anthropometric measurements (such as anemia, underweight, or overweight); 2) Other documented nutritionally related medical conditions (such as nutrient deficiency diseases, metabolic disorders, or lead poisoning); 3) Dietary deficiencies that impair or endanger heath (such as inadequate dietary patterns); 4) Conditions that directly affect the nutritional health of a person (including alcoholism or drug abuse); or 5) Conditions that predispose a person to inadequate nutritional patterns or nutritionally related medical conditions (including, but not limited to, homelessness and migrancy).”15