NPA-GP: Executive Summary of Recommendations (2023)

NPA-GP: Executive Summary of Recommendations (2023)

Executive Summary of Recommendations  

Below are the recommendations and ratings for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition and Physical Activity for the General Population 2023 Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Guideline. Use the links on the left to view the Guideline Introduction. Detailed recommendations, including the evidence supporting these recommendations, is available from the Guideline Recommendations and Supporting Evidence tab. 

• For  a description of the Academy Recommendation Rating scheme (Strong, Fair, Weak, Consensus, Insufficient Evidence), click here.
• For a description of the GRADE Recommendation Rate scheme (Level 1 (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D), Level 2 (2A, 2B, 2C, 2D), click here

• Nutrition Intervention
  NPA-GP: Healthy Adults

  Nutrition and exercise practitioners should provide individualized nutrition and physical activity interventions to healthy adults (those without cardiometabolic risk factors or disease), within their professional scopes of practice, and refer to practitioners with necessary specializations when appropriate for or desired by each client to improve dietary intake and physical activity behaviors.

  Level 1(B)

  Imperative
  NPA-GP: Adults with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors

  Nutrition and exercise practitioners should provide individualized nutrition and physical activity interventions to adults with cardiometabolic risk factors, within their professional scopes of practice, and refer to practitioners with necessary specializations when appropriate for or desired by each client to improve cardiometabolic risk factors.

  Level 1(B)

  Imperative