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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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Health Reform

In anticipation of challenges facing both the President and Congress, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has developed its own set of tenets by which it will analyze and critique any health care reform package presented to Congress. These tenets focus on preventive and interventional health promotion and care and the role of the registered dietitian in maintaining health and wellness; disease prevention; and chronic care management throughout the continuum of life—preconception to end of life care.

These tenets are:

The health of all Americans should improve as a result of our health policy choices. Sufficient resources must be made available to ensure optimal health.
Access to quality health care is a right that must be extended to all Americans.
Nutrition services, from pre-conception through end of life, are an essential component of comprehensive health care.
Stable, sufficient and reliable funding is necessary for our health care system to provide everyone access to a core package of benefits.
Health care must be patient-centered.

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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.