Nutrition guidance in The Netherlands: the role of the GP in the translation from population strategy to individual approach

An important pitfall of nutritional guidance in medical practice is how to deal with the prevention paradox: a nutritional advice that is good for the population as a whole is not necessarily proven effective for the individual patient. Evidence-based guidelines are needed to support GPs to translate these advices to the individual patient. We illustrate this with two examples: obesity and undernutrition. The Dutch Ministry of Health started a national partnership on overweight. The role of the Dutch College of GPs (NHG) in this process is to insert the GP’s perspective and to ‘translate’ the... Mehr ...