It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that exclusive breastfeeding provides optimal nutrition and health protection for the first 6 months of life, and that breastfeeding with complementary foods from 6 months until at least 12 months of age is the ideal feeding pattern for infants. Breastfeeding is an important public health strategy for improving infant and child morbid...

Clinicians, public health advisors, nutritionists and others have been attempting to increase breastfeeding rates for the last few decades, with varying degrees of success. We need social science researchers to help us understand the role of infant feeding in the family. Some researchers in the area of food and nutrition have found Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework helpful. In this editor...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to determine the influence on practice of a community of practice designed for public health nutritionists who work with retail stores in remote Indigenous communities in Australia. METHODS A descriptive evaluation of the community of practice participants' perspectives using the most significant change technique and individual in-depth interviews was conducted. ...

Over the past 2 decades, there have been revolutionary developments in life science technologies characterized by high throughput, high efficiency, and rapid computation. Nutritionists now have the advanced methodologies for the analysis of DNA, RNA, protein, low-molecular-weight metabolites, as well as access to bioinformatics databases. Statistics, which can be defined as the process of makin...

Introduction: Requirements for dietary amino acids (AA) in broilers may be affected by a variety of nutritional, environmental, genetic, or management factors. In order to address these variations in diet formulation, ideal ratios of indispensible AA to digestible (d) Lys, which remain relatively unaffected by these factors, may be used instead [1]. Nutritionists have successfully applied the i...

The current, globalised food system supplies 'cheap' food to a large proportion of the world's population, but with significant social, environmental and health costs that are poorly understood. The present paper examines the nature and extent of these costs for both rural and urban communities, by illustrating the financial pressures on food producers and manufacturers to produce cheap food, t...

A capacitação em avaliação nutricional é essencial para o aperfeiçoamento do processo de trabalho nutricionista. Em tempos pandemia da COVID-19, mudanças na atuação profissional e nas formas ensino impactaram no capacitação. Assim, objetivo deste descrever a experiência com realização curso extensão remoto “Avaliação Nutricional: Desafios Perspectivas”, que teve finalidade promover atualização ...

Training future nutritionists to meet competency standards set out by the Association for Nutrition (AfN) requires high-quality education and assessment methods. Currently little is known about implementation of competency-based (CBA) practices in nutrition their efficacy evaluating a student's performance at undergraduate post-graduate level. [...]the lack research around CBA has highlighted g...

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that nutritional genomics provides insight into how diet and genotype interactions affect phenotype. The practical application of nutritional genomics for complex chronic disease is an emerging science and the use of nutrigenetic testing to provide dietary advice is not ready for routine dietetics practice. Registered dietitian nutrit...