Build Up Catch Up - 2/9/24 - FREE

2024 Build Up Dietitians Survey Results, Amazon store gift ideas, Superbowl RDs, Supplements, Mis/Disinformation & more, Uber Eats ad Offends Food Allergy Community and more!

🎁Gifts for Dietitians in our AMAZON store

We have a bunch of different storefronts in our Build Up Dietitians Amazon store…posters, bags, t-shirts, mugs….ideas for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, RD Day, NNM or just every day “treat yo’self” gifts.

https://www.amazon.com/shop/builduprdns/

🏈Superbowl Dietitian Duel

🏈SF 49ers (Jordan Mazur) vs 🏈 KC Chiefs (Leslie Bonci)

Isn't it GREAT to see RDs represent! Which team will you be cheering for?

📝Build Up Dietitians 2024 Survey Results (409 Respondents)

4️⃣Things You May Have Missed - Get Caught Up

1. 🎧Responding to Online Mis- and Disinformation and Increasing Trust in Public Institutions (youtube.com)

A good listen featuring Dr. Robert Califf of the FDA talking about the importance of countering misinformation - it literally saves lives. "How direct the relationship is between bad information and death."

This is what we are and have been all about for almost 10 years. Taking a #stand4science, pointing out pseudoscience, mis and disinformation and posting #factsnotfears.

Thanks for joining us on this wild ride!

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2. 💊The Wild (Unregulated) West of Dietary Supplements

   

   Photo by Daily Nouri on Unsplash

   ARTICLE: Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of unregulated products | Salon.com - Emily Hemendinger and Katie Suleta

   “…Under a 1994 law, dietary supplements are classified as food, not as drugs. This means dietary supplements are not required to prove efficacy, unlike drugs. Regulators also don't take action on a product until it is shown to cause harm…..People with eating disorders may be attracted to dietary supplements that claim quick and pain-free weight loss or muscle gain. Additionally, dietary supplement users may struggle with an increase in compulsive exercise or other unhealthy weight control behaviors…”.

3. 🤼From our Build Up Public Health Nutrition Group

   

   Colleen D. - “That it encompasses more than just WIC.”

   Laura K. - “It requires understanding social determinants of health. And food security does not equal “food pantries.”

   4. Uber Eats: Tone Deaf Ad about Peanut Allergies?

   You may have to watch this one a couple of times.

   Here’s the image that caught the attention of many, particularly in the allergy community:

   

   Many noticed what is apparently a person having an allergic reaction to peanuts and objected to how this is portrayed as a joke during the ad.

   Super Bowl: Uber Eats advert criticised for peanut allergy joke - BBC News