Stages of Change Model I came upon this article in Nutrition Toady Volume 31 #4 from August 1996. Nutrition Today isn^Òt quite the magazine you would find me reading, but to tell you the truth this article interested me greatly. The author is a lady who has a nutritional doctorate. This article includes many claims about what it takes physically and mentally to eat right and keep a healthy body weight, but at the same time it proves those claims with many facts. The big question is if dietary behavior change is difficult, how can health and nutrition professionals effectively intervene. The author uses the Stages of Change Model as proposed by Prochaska and Co