In Western biomedicine, nutritional therapies have been proven cost-effective modes of treatment in such well-researched conditions as hypercholesterolemia (McGehee 1995) and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (Franz et al 1995). While patients are receptive to dietary advice from their doctors, that advice is seldom forthcoming in any great detail, as many physicians have minimal training in the biochemistry of nutrition (Alternative Medicine), and are not familiar with the many therapeutic dietary systems approaches available. In addition, physicians often perceive that there is resistance to dietary changes among their patients, a perception which may keep them from prescribing these therapies more often (Soltesz 1994). However, the resistance may be a function of how the information is presented: As Trudeau and Dube have shown, effective nutritional counseling enhances compliance with therapeutic diets (Soltesz et al 1994; Trudeau and Dube 1995).