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Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Monday October 4, 2021 Latest developments in the changing food environment. Tech: help for the food insecure, AI, Social Media, QR codes... Local resources online/via app w/Google’s Find Food Support; pickup/delivery w/Feeding America’s online grocery ordering system, OrderAhead. Walmart’s AI (artificial intelligence) for online food substitutions increases customer satisfaction. Other ways AI shapes how we shop online for groceries: carts record what you buy/suggest items, bot recommends recipes for o (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Friday October 1, 2021 October 14-17 | 16th Annual Cardiometabolic Health Congress (Take $100 OFF with Partner100) You’re invited to join the leaders in cardiometabolic medicine at the 16th Annual Cardiometabolic Health Congress taking place at the Gaylord National Harbor— just outside Washington, D.C— October 14-17, 2021. With sessions designed to encourage growth, foster insightful conversations, and push past clinical boundaries–this event will set the stage for the greater industry conversation on h (...)

Posted by: Ellen Schuster, MS on Wednesday September 15, 2021 Updated HHS DGAs toolkit includes consumer fact sheets Webinars... 3-part webinar series on the 2020 DGAs (American Society for Nutrition) - 60 min. recording and slides An In-Depth Look at the 2020 - 2025 DGAs (Today’s Dietitian) - 60 min. recording, slideshow, references and other materials Note: You must create an account in order to view the webinar. Available until 1/21/2022. An In-Depth Look at the 2020  - 2025 DGAs (Connect Extension) - 60 min. recording on YouTube The (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday September 8, 2021 Karen Chapman-Novakofski, PhD, RDN If you're writing a manuscript, planning a project, or agreeing to review for JNEB, do you read the Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers? They can be quite long. We mostly know what they say, right? An editor will correct things or a reviewer will suggest changes. Perhaps. However, we've been making some changes at JNEB that I wanted to share. The most obvious change is we no longer prohibit the use of first-person pronouns. Hopefully, this will eliminate a (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday September 8, 2021 Barbara Lohse, PhD, RD The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic impacted all activities on planet Earth, including design, delivery, and evaluation of nutrition education and our daily nutrition behaviors. Educators, researchers, and policy makers rose to the challenge to continue service, study phenomena, and problem solve in the face of significant barriers. The 2022 annual SNEB conference will acknowledge and inventory these accomplishments to honor, inform, inspire, and design future health and nutriti (...)

Posted by: Ellen Schuster, MS on Tuesday August 31, 2021 It’s the perfect storm...increased food and fuel prices, vendors closing or deciding to no longer work with school districts, drought, wildfires, fewer warehouse staff/truck drivers and unfilled school foodservice positions. Some of these factors have been affecting school meal programs for years before the pandemic, others are new. Yet school foodservice staff get up every day and continue to feed children in a very tough and ever-changing environment. Overview of school supply chain issue (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday August 18, 2021 If you think summer dishes can’t be full of flavor, read on! Inspiration for this posting began with the roasted butter beans I prepared (see recipe below)...so good, so crunchy, so much better than potato chips! Other healthful recipes are below. Enjoy! Savory/umami... Umami (the fifth taste) provides a savory flavor. Are there ways to get a savory, smoky, bacon flavor with no/lower sodium? Raquel Pelzel’s  ‘Umami Bomb’ suggests using smoked paprika and ground chipotle. Other opt (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday August 18, 2021 Jasia (Jayne) Steinmetz, RD, CD On June 5, 2021, the global family celebrated World Environment Day with the theme “Ecosystem Restoration” and called for not only conservation but also recovering systems that have been degraded or destroyed.1 This World Environment Day also officially launched the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, a decade addressing various ecosystem challenges around the world. Everyone around the world resides in 1 of the 8 identified ecosystems, includi (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday August 18, 2021 Susan L. Johnson, PhD As I sit, in July, in temperatures over 100° F and breathe smoke-filled air, I am thinking about climate change and what that means for our future. Channeling my thoughts into more productive realms, I have been thinking about my role, both personally and professionally, and how I can positively contribute to the future of the planet. I am contemplating moving toward a more plant-based diet and how far I, and my household, are willing to step in that direction. Food pr (...)

Posted by: SNEB Administrator on Thursday July 8, 2021 Susan L. Johnson, PhD How many times have you thought “this summer I'm going to get all those manuscripts written that I've let pile up because now I'm not teaching, and I will have a lot more time to devote to getting some things to the finish line!” And how many times have those best-made plans somehow evaporated because, despite the somewhat slower pace of summer and fewer required meetings, our plans to produce somehow drift away or get subsumed by other competing demands? The best a (...)