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It’s about making a week of awareness into a daily practice. University of New Mexico Nutrition and Dietetics professors Diana Gonzales-Pacheco and Debbie Luffey are fighting against malnutrition in New Mexico. Malnutrition is defined as a situation...
UNCG alumna and assistant professor Madeleine Meinhold is serving as the Greensboro Grasshoppers' nutritionist this baseball season.
Registered dietitians, exercise therapists and other team members in the Nutrition Services Department (NSD) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, assist patients and staff in making informed food choices and developing healthy eating and physical activity habits. Dietetic interns at WRNMMC also help Military Health System beneficiaries develop healthy eating and lifestyle habits. The interns come to WRNMMC as part of the two-phase U.S. Military-Baylor Graduate Program in Nutrition (GPN). WRNMMC is one of the host sites for Phase 2 of the program, when interns continue their educat...
The nutrition world is divided. But the word divide doesnât even present it accurately, that makes it seem split down the middle. Itâs not. Around 12.9 percent of registered dietitians are people of color, and itâs keeping an entire field from progressing. Itâs keeping an entire field of medicine from helping people who need their care most. Vanessa Rissetto, a registered dietitian in New Jersey, sees it for what it is: ingrained, structural racism. When I spoke to Vanessa a few times about her entry in the industry, and where itâs at now, she starts talking fast, dr...