Medical Nutrition Therapy Protocol

Follow these guidelines for nutrition visits with overweight children.

Who Is It For?

Dietitians, physicians, case managers and anyone else providing nutrition care to children and adolescents.

How Do You Get It?

This resource is distributed electronically and can be downloaded on this page.

How Is It Used?

Provides nutrition counseling protocol and patient education materials to help children and youth achieve a healthy weight.

This downloadable protocol from the Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center, ECU Brody School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, provides guidance on topics to discuss with overweight children for a series of nutrition visits as well as patient education materials for each session.

Achieving a Healthy Weight in Children