How Clients' Healthy Nutrition Is Influenced by Purnell's Cultural Competence Model Healthcare workers, especially nurses, operate in a healthcare environment which reflects the diversity and cultural ramification of the most important society. Customer diversity is altered and related to culture and other factors. Nutritional health problems are an aspect of care that must be recognized with sensitivity to cultural differences (Dennis & Small, 2003). The author focuses on understanding Larry D. Parnell's Cultural Competence Model as a framework to facilitate the provision of good nutrition to clients with unique practices and beliefs. According to WordWeb, nutrition is the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance. Culturally speaking, it is a label that determines our belonging to or distinction from a group (Purnell, 2005). Food preferences are also determined not only by an individual's worldview and health beliefs, but also by migration, gender, age and a number of other factors (Gallegos, 2006). The essence of food; food selection, practices and rituals; enzyme deficiencies; and how foods and food substances are used in health promotion, well-being and even during illness (Purnell, 2005). The effect of cultural influences impacts the nutritional health of patients. For starters, there is the consideration of a vegetarian, who may find that the diet has a positive effect on his or her nutritional health. This particular aspect of nutrition may be a cultural belief, although it may be a dietary practice. The article by Segasothy & Phillips (1999) mentions the vegetarian diet in general and... at the center of the article... Division of Psychiatry, UMDS (Guy's Campus), London. Naik, Z. (1999).Islamic Voice, RAMADAN 1419H. Vol 13-02 No:146, from http://www.islamicvoice.com/february.99/zakir.htmNorman J. Vetter (1992). Gerald Bennett and Shah Ebrahim, The Essentials of Health Care of the Elderly, Edward Arnold, London, 1992, 207 pp., £9.99, ISBN 0 340 54599 3.. Aging and Society, 12, pp 406-407 doi: 10.1017 / S0144686 %20MODEL.pdfSegasothy, M. & Philips, Pennsylvania (1999). Vegetarian diet: panacea for modern lifestyle diseases?, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine. Oxford JournalsVolume92, Number9Pp. 531-544, Medical Association.