Conference 2025
Join us at AAPA 2025 in Denver May 16-20 to discover new ways to care for patients and push your profession forward. Registration opens soon.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals and is committed to improving the nation’s health and advancing the profession of dietetics…
Diet Dialogue: Approaching Patient Conversations Using National Nutrition Data
In this Vital Minds episode, PA Ashlyn Smith and Chris Taylor, PhD in Nutritional Sciences, explore some key findings from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Learn…
Food for Thought: Reframing Nutrition With Patients
In this Vital Minds episode, PA Ellen Mandel, who began her career as registered dietitian, explains how to include nutrition conversations in your patient visits, keeping in mind issues like…
USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2020-2025)
This comprehensive publication includes four overarching science-based dietary guidelines as well as key recommendations for each stage of life.
Practical Nutrition for Health and Wellness
Check out these videos from the PA Foundation that aim to enhance patient-provider conversations about nutrition and its role in overall health and wellness. Test your knowledge!
CDC’s Nutrition Data, Guidelines, and Resources
Inform your conversations with patients by educating yourself on dietary guidelines, state-specific nutrition data, and more.
Watch How PAs Discuss Management of Nutritional Health
This 3-part animated video series led by Corri Wolf PA-C, MS, RDN, uses a patient case to explain the role a PA plays in nutrition, nutritional counseling, and treatment.
Healthy People 2030: Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Healthy People 2030 is our nation’s 10-year plan for addressing our most critical public health priorities and challenges. Read about the plan’s objectives related to nutrition and healthy eating.
