The world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. Formerly the American Dietetic Association

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Nutrition Care Manual

The Academy's Nutrition Care Manual is a comprehensive online resource that covers all aspects of nutrition management. NCM’s user-friendly resources include:

Disease-specific nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation recommendations.
Printable client handouts in English and Spanish.
Formulary database.

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Evidence Analysis Library: What you will find inside the Academy's Evidence Analysis Library:

Use Academy Evidence-Based Guidelines to apply cutting-edge, synthesized research to practice!

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Resources for Health Practitioners

As members of a multidisciplinary medical team, registered dietitians can significantly help improve outcomes and reduce risk of chronic diseases. In addition to nutrition services for prevention and wellness, RDs are the best-qualified health-care professionals to deliver Medical Nutrition Therapy services for disease management in acute and ambulatory-care settings. MNT is an effective treatment for serious diseases and conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, hypertension, HIV/AIDs and kidney disease.

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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is the world's largest charitable organization (501c3) focused on food, nutrition and dietetics. Academy Foundation is dedicated to working with the Registered Dietitian to help kids and their families eat right.
Participate in the only political action committee broadly focused on food, nutrition and health. If dietetics is your profession, politics is your business!
Through accreditation of more than 600 undergraduate and graduate didactic, dietetic technician and supervised practice programs, the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics ensures entry-level education meets quality standards.
The Commission on Dietetic Registration awards credentials to individuals at entry and specialty levels who have met CDR's standards for competency to practice in the dietetics profession.