Build Up Catch Up - 12/29/23

Best of: Meme Challenge, Most read newsletter, Build Up Dietitians Demographics, Nutrition Research of the Week, What's happening in our GROUPS and more....

Top Meme of 2023 by McKinzie Alston (over 900 “likes”)

(just to give you a point of reference - most memes average about 200 “likes”)

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Top 3 Build Up Newsletters of 2023 (REACH)

1. 4/14- Reach: 5.45K-61% open rate-Top story- Conflicting (Nutrition) Information: Build UP Catch Up - 4/14/23 - Build Up Catch Up (substack.com)

2. 5/19 - Reach: 4.47K - 59% open rate - Top story - Food Sensitivity Tests

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3. 12/15 - Reach: 3.92 - 63% open rate - Top Story - AAP GMO/Organic paper

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   Note: We’re pretty proud of our “open rate” …this is the percentage of people who receive the newsletter who subsequently open it. We average a 60% open rate which is considerably higher than the industry standards. Thank you so much for seeing value in this publication and wanting to “open” it!

   

   Email Open Rates By Industry (& Other Top Email Benchmarks) (hubspot.com)...

   Facebook: By the Numbers

   If you follow Build Up Dietitians on Facebook you’re one of over 58.5K people who does!

   Our average follower is a 25-34 year old woman in the U.S. (53% of our followers).

   In 2023 we reached 2.4 MILLION people on our Facebook page alone! This doesn’t count Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/”X” or Threads or even the newsletter.

   

   Nutrition Research of the Week (You Should Know About)

   

   Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash

   Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Cardiology | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network

   “Food is Medicine” is one of the more popular terms lately. But what happens when you take 2 groups of individuals with diabetes and provide one group with ‘healthy groceries for 10 meals per week for an entire household’? Do you see a difference in HbA1c? “In this randomized clinical trial, an intensive food-as-medicine program increased engagement with preventive health care but did not improve glycemic control compared with usual care among adult participants.”

   More on this from Ted Kyle of ConscienHealth Food as Medicine: Great Program, but Lacking a Medical Benefit - ConscienHealth

   

   Staff and Moderator Book Picks - Amazon Store

   We’re pretty excited about the Build Up Dietitians Amazon Storefront and especially our Staff and Moderator book picks. These are some books that Build Up Staff, Moderator and Friends think are “must-have’s” and why.

   Right now, there are a total of 12 books in the storefront, but we expect this to grow!

   

What’s going on in our GROUPS?

1. Build Up Dietitians Military Group - a good resource for checking safety of supplements Operation Supplement Safety | OPSS

2. Build Up Dietitians Career Advice - how much you DON’T make working with a MLM like doTERRA, Herbalife, Arbonne, etc.

   “… About 99% of people who join multilevel marketing companies lose money. This means that only 1% of people make an actual profit, and these people tend to be those at the top of the pyramid…”

3. Build Up Dietitians LTC, LTAC, Geriatric Nutrition & Rehab - Question and response regarding nutritional needs and TBI - Nutrition Management for patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)