NAVIGATING THE 2025–2030 DIETARY GUIDELINES: A ROADMAP FOR DIETITIANS
This session will provide a deep dive into the newly released 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, highlighting key recommendations, changes from previous guidance, and areas of concern. Attendees will explore emerging discussions around protein, fats, dairy, added sugars, processed foods, and health equity, while examining how the new guidelines compare with existing evidence and recommendations from leading health organizations. Practical strategies will also be shared to help dietetic professionals navigate consumer conversations and apply the guidelines in real-world practice with nuance and clarity.
Upon successful completion of this one-hour course, the participant should be able to:
- Summarize key updates in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and explain their implications for nutrition practice.
- Confidently discuss the current scientific evidence related to major themes within the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and healthy dietary patterns.
- Foster confidence using evidence-based communication strategies to address questions about the DGAs and translate guidance into individual, practical recommendations.
Live Event Date:
Oct 15, 2026
Performance Indicators/Learning Objectives: 5.1.2, 3.2.3, 9.2.1
Target Audience: RDs, DTRs, Health Professionals
Total Cost:
1.5 Site Credits
About the Presenter: Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, FAND
Toby is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition, PC, where she provides nutrition and food safety consulting services for individuals, restaurants and food brands. She is a Wall Street Journal bestselling cookbook author and has 10 published cookbooks with her 11th cookbook titled, Health Shots: 50 Simple, Healing Tonics to Help Improve Immunity, Ease Anxiety, Boost Energy, and More being released in December 2024. For over to 16 years Toby has been the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com, and founding contributor to their Healthy Eats Blog. Toby is a regular contributor to many national online publications and for over 10 years has been penning the “Ask the Expert” column in Today’s Dietitian Magazine. She is also on the medical board for Forbes.com and EatThis.com and on the editorial board for Today's Dietitian Magazine. As a nutrition expert, she has been quoted in hundreds of publications and regularly appears on local and national television shows. For 11 years Toby was an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University teaching food service management and also taught at CUNY Hunter School of Public Urban Health and Lehman College in NYC.
Toby trained as a clinical dietitian at New York University. Through ongoing consulting and faculty positions, she has established herself as one of the top experts in culinary nutrition, food safety, and media communications. In 2018, Toby was awarded by the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics the coveted Media Excellence Award.
