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Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Monday June 20, 2022 by Jasia (Jayne) Steinmetz, RD, CD President, Society for Nutrition, Education and Behavior It is time to stop accepting the gender wage disparity. Equal Pay Day, which marks the average number of extra days that women must work  to  earn what men had earned the year before, was March 15, 2022. When comparing wages to White, non-Hispanic men, the Equal Pay Day was May 9 for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women, but it is even later for others: September 21 for Black w (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Monday June 20, 2022 by Karen Chapman-Novakofski, PhD, RDN Editor-in-Chief, Journal of NutritionEducation and Behavior, Advancing Research, Practice, and Policy The weather is fine and we are all outside enoying the fresh air and moving around more than we did during the winter months. At least that is true for many of us. For others, physical activity is a challenge perhaps physically and mentally. A qualitative study by Palmer-Keenan1 examined the physical activity-related attitudes of inactive teens from lo (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Monday June 20, 2022 by SNEB member Ellen Schuster,  MS Food bank/school meal challenges, an update on FDA’s investigation of Lucky Charms complaints and more! FOOD BANKS/SCHOOL MEAL CHALLENGES Food banks struggle with multiple challenges: hard-to-find items, inflation, higher fuel costs, staff shortages, less money being donated (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1101473558/demand-food-banks-inflation-supply-chain). Summer school meals: It’s estimated that 1 in 5 meal sites won’t open this summer as t (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Sunday June 5, 2022 by SNEB member Ellen Schuster,  MS Every day sees rising food costs prompting questions: Are companies raising prices because they can? Will prices ever go down/return to ‘normal’? (Takeaway: Maybe not if you read the section below ‘a different take on rising prices’.) Amid this backdrop is a report: 62 new ‘food billionaires’ were created from pandemic profits (https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/rising-food-prices-made-62-new-food-billionaires-and-the-dynasties-could-ge (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Sunday May 22, 2022 by SNEB member Ellen Schuster,  MS This ‘n that: Submit comments, info on listening sessions ahead of September White House conference on nutrition, hunger and health (https://health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/white-house-conference-hunger-nutrition-and-health). 2023 Farm Bill work begins at first Michigan hearing (https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-bill/1st-senate-farm-bill-hearing-held-michigan); more on the Farm Bill  (https://frac.org/blog/the-road-to-the-2023-farm-bi (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Wednesday May 18, 2022 From July 29 - 31, nutrition educators will meet at the Mariott Marquis in Atlanta, GA, for the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior annual conference. Building on the successful virtual conferences held in 2020 and 2021, the 2022 conference will welcome back in-person attendees and also offer a virtual attendance option. A unique conference feature will be a buddy system linking in-person and virtual attendees for collaboration through the two-day event. With a focus on Re-engineerin (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Monday May 16, 2022 White House conference on hunger, nutrition slated for this September On May 4, President Biden announced that he will convene a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in September. The goals of the conference are to “end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030, so that fewer Americans experience diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.” Conference details are forthcoming. The Administration is planning to hold a number of vi (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Saturday May 7, 2022 Susan L. Johnson, PhD Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Advancing Research, Practice and Policy A newer trend in science communication focuses on creating succinct, attractive graphics that convey the take-away findings of your project. A graphical abstract is one example of such communications. Graphical abstracts (GAs) are simple, key messages that allow the reader to visually take home the most important points about your project’s story; they have a s (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Saturday May 7, 2022 Jasia (Jayne) Steinmetz, RD, CD President, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior The confluence of major global trends has the potential to transform our communities to meet the needs of all people. These trends include 1) increasing acknowledgement of happiness and well-being as significant outcomes of development; 2) rapid population aging in every country; 3) the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which fuses technology, biology, and digital interface; and 4) swift transformations to av (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Saturday May 7, 2022 by SNEB member Ellen Schuster,  MS As always much is happening online whether in the metaverse, social media, mobile ordering and more. Read on…if you dare… The metaverse, drones: Not yet in the metaverse where you can connect socially in a 3D virtual reality world? See screenshots from the metaverse of Wendy’s, Chipotle and McDonald’s (https://www.businessinsider.com/chipotle-mcdonalds-wendys-metaverse-virtual-worlds-photos-2022-4); McD’s in the metaverse - its mission: sell f (...)