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Wellness Coaching Skills to Enhance Your Client Follow-Up

Wellness Coaching Skills to Enhance Your Client Follow-Up

Don't miss this upcoming live webinar!

Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013

Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET (12pm CT/11am MT/10am PT)

CPE Credit: RDs and DTRs: 1 (Level 2) credit hour

Fee: This activity is complimentary, but pre-registration is required.

Click here to learn more and register today

2012 Member Survey Results are in…..

2012 Member Survey Results are in.....

The annual Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group (WM DPG) Member Survey was conducted in February 2013 to seek input on issues and services important to members.  Read all about it here.

WM and SCAN DPG’s are proud to present:…

WM and SCAN DPG’s are proud to present:…

The much anticipated and long awaited, The Physical Activity Toolkit for Registered Dietitians: Utilizing the Resources of Exercise Is Medicine is here and ready for action! This powerful toolkit is a rich resource to aid the RD with expert or novice expertise of physical activity. It can be downloaded by linking here

Dietetics Career Development Guide

Dietetics Career Development Guide

The Dietetics Career Development Guide is now available on the Academy website. The Guide uses the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to illustrate how a practitioner can increase levels of knowledge and skill throughout a career. Through life-long learning and professional development, practitioners acquire and develop skills that lead to increased competencies and levels of practice. The Council on Future Practice has created a web page to provide members with the Dietetics Career Development Guide, definitions of terms used in the Guide, definition of focus area of practice, specialist practice and advanced practice. You can access this information at http://www.eatright.org/Members/content.aspx?id=7665

Kids Eat Right Mini-Grant Opportunity!

To support the use of the Kids Eat Right toolkits by campaign members, fifty (50) $200 grants are available. Recipients of the mini-grants agree to give two presentations from any of the Kids Eat Right toolkits (Healthy Breakfast, Healthy Snacking, Family Champions or Family Mealtime) in a school setting for kids or adults between February 15, 2013- April 30th, 2013.  Please see full details and dowload application here. Applications are due February 15th, 2013 and mini-grantees will be announced February 25th, 2013. To Join KER visit www.kidseatright.org/volunteer. Kids Eat Right toolkits are available at www.kidseatright.org/volunteer as free downloadable toolkits consisting of ready-made presentations, activities and handouts for a variety of audiences. This Kids Eat Right Mini-Grant Opportunity was made available by an educational grant from Coco-Cola.

 

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Winter 2013 Vol. 11 No. 3: Full Issue

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Latest News

Lifestyle intervention reduces body weight and improves cardiometabolic risk factors in worksites.
May 13th, 2013

Relationships between selected gene polymorphisms and blood pressure sensitivity to weight loss in elderly persons with hypertension.
May 13th, 2013

Beneficial effects of a higher-protein breakfast on the appetitive, hormonal, and neural signals controlling energy intake regulation in overweight/obese, “breakfast-skipping,” late-adolescent girls.
May 13th, 2013

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*These weight managment updates are courtesy of the Daily News from the Academy's Knowledge Center. The Daily News List is a daily newsletter informing Academy members of news affecting food, nutrition and health. To get the Daily News in your mailbox each day go to www.eatright.org/dailynews.