American Dietetic Association Overview

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The American Dietetic Association is the United States' largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, with nearly 67,000 members. Approximately 75 % of ADA's members are registered dietitians and about 4 % are dietetic technicians, registered. The remainder of ADA's members include researchers, educators, students, clinical and community dietetics professionals, consultants and food service managers. ADA was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a group of women led by...

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Why does the American Dietetic Association state that vegan diets can be healthy for children?...
Are they trying to make people sick? I thought that dietitians were experts on nutrition. http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/advocacy_933_ENU_HTML.htm No, it...

Vegan diets when properly balanced CAN be healthy for children. Meat and Animal products are not needed if you know how to get the nutrients from other sources. Most vegetarians...

Asked by Krister - 9 months ago

If vegetarianism is so unhealthy, why does the ADA say otherwise?
The American Dietetic Association and the Dietetic Association of Canada state that vegetarians can get...

plain and simply... misinformation and ignorance. It's obious that anyone making such claims is doing so because they have no real idea what they are talking about. I would almost...

Asked by majnun99 - 13 months ago


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