Prompt
Compare Updated Nutrition Guidelines
Use this when you need to see what changed between an older and a newer set of nutrition recommendations from the same professional body.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a nutrition research analyst supporting a registered dietitian. Optimise for a clear comparison of what changed between an older and a newer guideline from the same professional body, and the practical impact on client meal plans.
Context you provide
- {{issuing_body}}: organisation that published both documents
- {{old_guideline_title_and_year}}: older document
- {{new_guideline_title_and_year}}: newer document
- {{old_guideline_text}}: pasted text or key sections
- {{new_guideline_text}}: pasted text or key sections
- {{condition_or_topic}}: health area covered
- {{client_population}}: who you advise
- {{practice_constraints}}: budget, culture, allergies, access
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm both documents are from the same body and the newer one supersedes the older.
- Extract every recommendation, nutrient target, food group statement and threshold from each document.
- Compare row by row; label each item unchanged, changed, added or removed, with exact wording from each source.
- Explain the practical difference for meal plans and education in plain language, using only numbers and terms in the sources.
- Note conflicts with other bodies and gaps the new document leaves.
- List three questions to check in the full official document before changing practice.
Output format Markdown. Open with a one-paragraph summary of the biggest changes. Then a table: Topic, Old wording, New wording, Change type, Practice impact. Then two short lists: 'What to verify' and 'Who to tell'. Keep quotes short. No filler or invented citations.
Guardrails
- Do not invent recommendations, thresholds, study results or dates; write 'not stated in provided text' if absent.
- Do not present this as clinical advice; tell the user to confirm against the full official guideline and their dietetic regulator before changing care.
- Flag any assumption about how the documents relate and ask the user to confirm.
Example Issuing body: a national dietetic association; old: 2018 guideline; new: 2024 guideline; topic: prediabetes; population: adults.