Dietitian Course: Current Nutrition and Diet Trends: A Year in Review and A Look Ahead

CURRENT NUTRITION AND DIET TRENDS: A YEAR IN REVIEW AND A LOOK AHEAD

From food safety issues like recalls and microwaving plastic to specific supplements like berberine and NAD+ the year has been filled with trends and fads that consumers typically ask about. The presenter will review the current research on these trends and discuss best practices for practitioners when faced with questions on these topics. In addition, transparency has increasingly become of utmost importance in the field of nutrition and the presenter will look ahead at the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines and its newly released transparency on the creation of those guidelines, plus discuss the latest FTC disclosure regulations for dietetic professionals-- and other popular topics that will remain or become popular in the year ahead.

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

Describe the evidence-based process used to create and update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs).

Identify and summarize the changes and updates published in the 2020-2025 DGAs.

Create and share actionable healthful eating messages with clients based on the DGAs.

Live Webinar Date: Nov 12, 2024 (04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Eastern Time) (US and Canada)

Performance Indicators/Learning Objectives: 1.2.2, 2.1.4, 9.1.5

Target Audience: RDs, DTRs, Health Professionals

Number of Credits: 1.0

Level(s): 1, 2

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.