Your Digestive Health: Nourish to Flourish
The College is honored to join the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) in observing World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) on Thursday, May 29, 2025, with the theme of “Your Digestive Health: Nourish to Flourish.” ACG supports WGO in its objectives to provide the public with information about prioritizing nourishing foods and making informed lifestyle choices to proactively maintain digestive health, reduce the risk of gastrointestinal disorders, and improve overall quality of life.
Resources for Patients and Physicians: Watch. Listen. Learn.
The College’s commitment to nutrition and digestive health includes developing clinical guidelines for physicians, providing the most up-to-date recommendations to guide physicians in treating digestive diseases and conditions. ACG also develops one-page health information handouts for patients using simple language.
Below are resources related to the most recent guideline, webinars, and patient handouts that can be downloaded and shared or printed.
For Clinicians
ACG Clinical Guideline: Malnutrition and Nutritional Recommendations in Liver Disease
Singal & Wong, et al.
📕 Guideline | 🎙️ Podcast
Presentations
Nutrition 101 for the Gastroenterologist: A Case-Based Approach
John K. DiBaise, MD, FACG
Assessing for Eating Disorders: A Primer for Gastroenterologists
Monia E. Werlang, MD & Leslie Sim, PhD, LP
Dietary Management of IBS: A Recipe for Success
William D. Chey, MD, FACG
Identification and Evaluation of Malnutrition in a Gastroenterology Practice
Dejan Micic, MD
Diet, Nutrition, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Digesting the Facts
Jason K. Hou, MD, MS, FACG
The Nutritional Approach to IBD, IBS, and MASLD: Benefits and Caveats
Emily A. Haller, MS, RDN
Incorporating Nutrition and Obesity, Lifestyle, and Functional Medicine into Clinical Practice
Supriya Rao, MD & Vivian A. Asamoah, MD
GI Nutrition Care Series: Practical Tools and Techniques for Applying Nutrition Assessments in Your Practice
Neha, Dilip, Shah, MPH, RD, CNSC, CHES
How to Bring Farm to Table Into GI Training and Practices
Christina A. Tennyson, MD; Alexis M. Bejcek, MD & Madhuri Badrinath, MD
