AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE 2020-2025 DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS
Since 1980, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have released and continue to update the dietary guidelines every 5 years. The 2020-2025 guidelines were much anticipated as for the first time it includes recommendations for 0 to 24 months and for pregnancy and lactation. In this webinar, we will review the history of the dietary guidelines, the newest additions and modifications made to these latest guidelines. In addition, the presenter will discuss ways practitioners can help clients more closely adhere to these nutrition recommendations.
Upon successful completion of this one-hour course, the participant should be able to:
- Understand the process of how the dietary guidelines are created.
- Explain the current 2020-2025 dietary guidelines and any modifications/additions made to them.
- Communicate healthful eating messages to patients or clients based on the dietary guidelines and MyPlate.
Live Event Date:
Feb 14, 2023
Expiration Date:
May 31, 2024
Performance Indicators/Learning Objectives: 6.2.1, 8.1.1, 13.2.1
Target Audience: RDs, DTRs, Health Professionals
Total Cost:
1 Site Credit
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.
