A client with diabetes is being cared for in the home, with the assist

A client with diabetes is being cared for in the home, with the assistance of a home health nurse and a family member. The client asks you if eating a vegetarian diet will conflict with the disease.

The nurse anticipates that the client will follow a vegetarian diet because he is a member of which of the following religions?
1. Hinduism
2. Judaism
3. Islam
4. Sikhism

ANSWER

ANS: 1
Some sects of Hindus are vegetarians. The belief is not to kill any living creature. Followers of Judaism may observe the kosher dietary restriction of avoiding pork and shellfish and not pre-paring and eating milk and meat at the same time. People of Islamic faith do not consume pork and alcohol. Fasting is done during the month of Ramadan. Members of the Sikhism religion do not necessarily follow a vegetarian diet.