Nutrition
Enhance your knowledge of Nutrition with up-to-date CME resources, articles, videos, and more.
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Clinical Guidelines & Point-of-Care Resources
Nutrition Guide for Clinicians
The Nutrition Guide for Clinicians provides free, expert, evidence-based support to healthcare professionals.
CDC About Nutrition
Inform your conversations with patients by educating yourself on dietary guidelines, state-specific nutrition data, and more.
Guidelines for the Provision of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient
This guideline updates recommendations from the 2016 American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition/Society of Critical Care Medicine critical care nutrition guideline for five foundational questions central to critical care nutrition support.
CME Resources
InNetwork CME – Lifestyle Matters: Modifiable Risk Factors for Cancer Prevention
Included in Plus and Premium Memberships! AAPA’s InNetwork CME offers specialty spotlights on various topics, created for PAs, by PAs. The American Cancer Society projected that more than two million individuals in the United States… more
Nutrition in Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics – Podcast
This session explores the vital role of nutrition in optimizing athletic performance. This talk delves into the fundamental metabolic processes that underpin sports nutrition, providing a clear understanding of how the body utilizes nutrients during… more
Explore these sessions on nutrition available as part of AAPA Conference on Demand 2025.
NTS: The Importance of Muscle Mass and Protein During Weight Loss
In this session we will examine how protein intake influences weight loss, body composition, and metabolic health. You will learn strategies for incorporating protein into weight loss treatment plans and understand sarcopenia during intentional weight loss.
Lifestyle Medicine: Essentials for Lifestyle Medicine Interventions
This session will review evidence for improving chronic disease by addressing the six pillars of lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, social connections, and avoidance of risky substance use.
Don’t Just Feed Them Already! Emergency Management of Starvation-Related Illness
Anorexia nervosa has the highest fatality of all psychiatric diagnoses, partially due to the physiologic consequences of starvation. This presentation will provide a patient case-based review of anorexia nervosa, starvation, and the potential perils of nutritional rehabilitation.
Videos
Nutrition to Improve Recovery After Surgery
Your nutrition is important, from preparation for, and recovery from, surgery. In this AAPA video, find out what you should consume prior to surgery in order to minimize your risk of complications and boost your recovery.
Your Nutrition Plan: How to Use a 24-Hour Dietary Recall
Nutrition is a big factor in maintaining overall good health. In this AAPA video, learn how to complete a 24-hour dietary recall to produce optimal outcomes for your health journey.
Nutrition to Support Wound Healing
Did you know that when you’re healing, what you eat can affect how you heal? In this AAPA video, learn how protein, vitamins and minerals, and calories in food play a role in wound healing and what foods to include in your diet to help your body heal.