Abstract

The dietetics profession stands at an important crossroads in the advancement of technological applications to dietary assessment and to new wide-sweeping approaches to dietetics practice, nutrition research, and food and health policy, which are evolving as the profession moves to individualized or personalized nutrition. While dietetics practitioners (registered dietitians [RDs]/dietetic technicians, registered [DTRs]) have long individualized diet plans for patients diagnosed with diabetes or other diseases or conditions requiring medical nutrition therapy, individualization of nutrition is now aimed at optimal nutrition for health and not solely at prevention of nutrient deficiency or at disease treatment (1).

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