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The 3 Fundamental Principles of EBN

Evidence-based nutrition involves 3 fundamental principles.

First, optimal clinical decision-making requires awareness of the best available evidence that will ideally come from systematic summaries of the available evidence.

Second, EBN provides guidance to decide whether evidence is more or less trustworthy—that is, how certain can we be of our patients’ prognosis, of our therapeutic options, or of the properties of diagnostic tests?

Third, evidence alone is never sufficient to make a clinical decision. Decision makers must always trade off the benefits with the risks, burden, and costs associated with alternative management strategies, as well as individuals’ dietary habits and preferences, and, in so doing, consider their patients’ unique predicament and values and preferences. Each of these principles assumes that best evidence is readily available to clinical decision makers.