Evidence-based nutritional guidelines: What is meant by trustworthy recommendations

The article aims to describe the characteristics of trustworthy recommendations as well as standards for trustworthy guidelines published by the Institute of Medicine and tools that can be used for quality assessment. The next section summarizes published assessments of guidelines quality using AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines, Research and Evaluation Collaboration) Instrument and the problems raised by the National Academy of Sciences regarding nutritional guidelines development process. In this ones, similar problems are also reflected in the assessment of quality of nutritional guidelines, also using AGREE Instrument, since less than 50?% of the documents rated as high quality. The article is concluded with the description of NutriRECS protocol, as an example of strict, transparent and comprehensive approach to develop nutritional guidelines.