Policy on Dietary Recommendations for Infants, Children, and Adolescents.

Methods The revision of this policy is based on a review of current dental and medical literature related to diet and nutrition for infants, children, and adolescents. This document is an update of the previous version, revised in 2008. The update included an electronic PubMed® search combining terms such as “caries” and “body mass index”, ”breast-feeding”, “diabetes”, “hypertension”, “physical activity”, “nutrition”, “obesity”, “sugar-sweetened beverages”, “sugar-sweetened medications”, “sugar-containing medications”, “chewable vitamins”, and “sugarsweetened vitamin supplements” and relevant articles from dental and medical literature. The search returned 3,755 articles. The reviewers agreed upon the inclusion of 36 articles that met the defined criteria. Relevant policies and guidelines of the AAPD, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics also are included.