Picture Source Back in my final days in finance, I spent many hours online reading health and nutrition blogs. It isn’t an uncommon first step for the “I hate what I do and need to do something worthwhile” moment that many of my colleagues in this field experienced. But at the time, I thought of [...]
Hello ARD Readers! I am going to start this post a bit non-traditionally with a personal update. As many of you know, I have been finishing my MS at Tufts and not-so-patiently awaiting Match Day, described in my “So, You Want To be An Registered Dietitian” post as the day all future dietitians find out [...]
This article was recently published on the cover of Today@MDA , the quarterly newsletter of the Massachusetts Dietetic Association. Unfortunately, I cannot link to the story as I usually would because it is a members only site. So I am providing the full text article that I wrote, but would like to note that it [...]
The Los Angeles Times Fitsugar.com Livestrong.com These three headlines are all based on the same piece of research, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on March 12th entitled “Red Meat Consumption and Mortality.” So, how did the LA Times, Livestrong, and a popular health blogger all get such different messages? And what [...]
There are two defining days in the life of a student who wishes to continue her education as a registered dietitian (RD): application deadline day and match day, which this year fall on February 15th (today) and April 1st (April Fools Day. Really?!) The application deadline day is just as it sounds: the day that [...]