7/18/25 - Reality TV Meets FNCE: What People Should Know About RD's; GLP-1 advice; Should MD's Learn Nutrition?; FREE CEUs
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🤔Question of the Day
Some of the top “liked” responses:
Katie R. “We all don’t write meal plans…”.
Maricel L. “We are more likely to tell you to eat more foods, than the other way around!”
Jennifer M. “How much time, training and experience it takes to be an RD.”
Annette C. “We are not the food police!”
Katie R. “The value we bring to the healthcare team.”
Jennifer T. “We know more than doctors when it comes to nutrition.”
Leslie G. “Our level of education.”
Jennifer H. “That “dieting/weight loss” is often not our target or only skillset.”
Erica J. “That we exist and are much more trustworthy than some random influencer.”
👨🏽⚕️Nutrition Training for M.D.’s?
Nutrition Training for Physicians by
Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD
“…It would be amazing if we trained physicians to better know how to work with and refer to RDs, and then fixed medical reimbursement to ensure that RD services could get covered for both prevention and management of chronic diseases….refocusing some of the excessive enthusiasm around physician nutrition training towards utilizing the heavily underutilized profession of Dietetics would be a great starting point for this administration and states to truly tackle nutrition & chronic disease.”
📺Question: Build Up Dietitians CAREER ADVICE group
We decided to ask how dietitians felt about having reality TV celebrity producer Andy Cohen as the closing session speaker for FNCE (Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo) in Nashville this October.
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💉Substack Newsletter Recommendation
Are GLP-1 Medications for Weight Loss Right
This is some solid information on GLP-1’s that is consumer/client facing.
by Elizabeth Ward, MS, RDN - Menopause Nutrition
🤔Substack - from former Commissioner of the FDA -
Robert Califf, MD, MACC
“…All too often, proposed MAHA interventions included unproven dietary supplements, vitamins, and food choices instead of evidence-based recommendations regarding nutrition, lifestyle choices, and medicines that have been rigorously evaluated and shown to improve health….”
