3/7/25: Retro NNM Images; Read Beyond the Headlines; Emulsifiers & Crohn's Disease; Spotlight: A Shoe Queen RD; Mini Meet Up at ASPEN; RD Swag from Donut Season & more
Nutrition News You Can Use
👀Retro Natl Nutrition Month Images
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🔍Substack: Health News? Read Beyond the Headlines! - Rina Raphael
Why You Should Be More Skeptical of Health News
(Highly recommend Rina’s newsletter - she sifts through hot topics is health and wellness.)
“…Wellness stories are often not held to the same skeptical or fact-checking standards as health/medical reports, mainly because wellness is considered “lifestyle” content. Consider all the first-person “I tried it!” accounts allowed for at-home health tests and dietary supplements. Can you imagine the same leniency for pharmaceuticals? More publications are going all in on this type of service content: shopping guides, how-tos, and product reviews. They’re cheap, quick to produce, and can be easily manipulated to improve SEO rankings. Some publications even have their own product shops, blending editorial content with commercial content. For instance, GQ magazine sells a supplement powder to “increase your cellular energy” and “reverse aging.”…
👩🏽🔬Research (Preliminary) on Emulsifiers & Crohn’s Disease (Paper Due)
Dietetics leads potential new treatment for Crohn’s disease - BDA
“…The trial, known as the ADDapt trial and led by researchers at King’s College London, observed that people with Crohn’s disease were three times more likely to see improvement of their symptoms when cutting out emulsifiers from their diet. Participants also found that their symptoms were twice as likely to go into remission, where their disease symptoms disappeared.”
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💡Spotlight: Dietitian Michelle Welch - 👢👡👠Shoe Queen
Q1: What's your job? “Lincoln Public Schools District Wellness Facilitator going on my 14th year, which is wellness programming for both our 40K+ students and 8K+ staff across about 80 locations and building programming from scratch to integrate student and staff wellness with wacky fun. Collaborations abound across the district and the community…including hosting many shows/videos for our Mayor's health channel. Prior to this I was a corporate wellness developer and spent a decade in a critical access hospital as a dietitian/PR manager/multi-hat dietitian. We are a double dietitian family, with my husband representing the culinary side of the dietitian world.”
Q2: You've long incorporated some really fun shoes into your workday. When and why did you start doing that? “Wild shoes happened as a spinoff from my wacky purse collection, which began with a couple whimsical purses I found traveling overseas over 20 years ago…Back in my corporate wellness days, I did lots of talks in front of big groups….
When I switched to schools, kids in gyms are all sitting at your feet level and notice your shoes. Post-COVID, stilettos have been switched out for fun combat boots, KISS worthy platforms and everything that sparkles. Here's what Gene Simmons never told you, those platforms feel like Dansko clogs if you get the right ones, they are practically orthotics. Plus, thanks to the internet and algorithms, the access to wilder shoes is now at my fingertips. That said, they have to be comfortable, and I NEVER pay full price for anything…”
Q3: Is there one pair of shoes that people comment on the most? “Most of the shoes with dimension, color or sparkle are popular…flames, flowers and wings... My main office is at a middle school on the 8th grade floor, where I have found out that several of the boots are "drippy" or I am sporting a "great fit." …It's usually your least likely suspects that approach you with comments and tell you that you've made their day…. Since COVID, I started having more fun with my shoes but truly saw less of my people in person. Just to be silly, I started posting pictures of my outlandish shoes to make my friends smile and it took off. People kept telling me how much joy it brought them, so it’s kind of snowballed. Now I post about once a week about one of the wacky pairs I wear. It's reconnected me with people from all different parts of my life I miss. Sometimes it's the little things that keep us connected.”
Connect with Michelle on Facebook HERE
🛒RD Swag from Donut Season
Looking for gifts for your RD, RD2Be friends for National Nutrition Month? Check out Donut Season (owned by dietitian Miranda Regan) Use promo code NNMBUD25 or go directly to the Build Up Dietitians affiliate link: https://donutseason.com/?ref=BuildUpDietitians for a 15% discount on all regularly priced items (minus gift cards, clearance, and bundles). (Note: Build Up Dietitians receives a small commission (2%) on items sold and we use these funds for events like our Build Up Meet Ups and Mini Meet Ups and biannual honorariums for moderators for our groups.)
🍽️LinkedIn: “Changing Our Diet Won’t End Hunger” - Anina Estrem, MPP
Changing Our Diet Won’t End Hunger – Reintroducing justice and dignity to the fight to end hunger
“While there are many compelling reasons for our society to eat less meat, an essential component of food justice is ensuring that people choose what they eat rather than having the decision forced upon them….promoting a vegetarian diet as the solution to hunger does not increase access to food- it simply eliminates a source of nutrition that is essential for many people.”
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