Nutrition intervention guidelines
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Vitamin E supplementation (2,000 IU/day) should be considered for Alzheimer's patients unless contraindicated, according to "A Physician's Guide to Nutrition in Chronic Disease Management in Older Adults." Guide was created by Nutrition Screening Initiative in partnership with American Academy of Family Physicians and American Dietetic Association. Designed to provide easy-to-use information to doctors and consumers, guide warns coronary heart disease patients that high doses of fish oil supplements "may increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke." Osteoporosis patients also are advised to avoid taking large doses of vitamin A-rich cod liver oil...