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Presidents Movie Night – Just Eat It

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Posted by: on Monday July 17, 2017 5:45 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. | Friday, 7/21 | Independence I Moderator: Alexandra Lewin-Zwerdling, PhD, MPA, IFIC We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash? (...)

Meet the Exhibitor: University of New England

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Posted by: on Monday July 17, 2017 The University of New England is Maine’s largest private university, an innovative educational community with two distinctive coastal Maine campuses, a vibrant new campus in Tangier, Morocco and a robust offering of degree and certificate programs online. UNE attracts internationally recognized scholars in the health sciences, life sciences, business, education, the social sciences and the humanities, allowing both our graduate and undergraduate students to engage in research and scholarship (...)

Meet the Exhibitor: Noodle Soup

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Posted by: on Sunday July 16, 2017 Located in Cleveland, Ohio, Noodle Soup evolved from Weingart Design, our parent graphic design studio. Owner Cydney Weingart, above in red, has enjoyed a successful career in graphics since attending the Cleveland Institute of Art in the early 70's. Along with her hard working assistants, Noodle Soup has turned into a nationally recognized health promotions company. Noodle Soup of Weingart Design, 100% Woman Owned, specializes in developing low-literacy, low cost, well illustrated, easy-to-r (...)

SNEB Foundation Scholarship Spotlight: Elizabeth C Dodge, MS, PhD

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Posted by: on Sunday July 16, 2017 Elizabeth C Dodge, MS, PhD, received an SNEB Foundation Student Scholarship at the 2012 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.  Upon arriving at the conference, Dodge remembers being very overwhelmed by the amount of opportunities it offered in terms of sessions and networking. “It was one of those conferences where you are consistently torn deciding between two or three of the sessions at any given time because they all sound equally interesting!” Dodge recalled.” I remember meeting ma (...)

Meet the Sponsor: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Posted by: on Sunday July 16, 2017 Green Tree, a new imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is set to refresh and reshape self-improvement publishing with a range of books that will inspire, inform and motivate. Launching the imprint is the US publication of The Gut Makeover: 4 Weeks to Nourish Your Gut, Revolutionize Your Health, and Lose Weight by Jeannette Hyde. This ground-breaking four-week eating plan designed by a leading nutritional therapist provides life-changing benefits for a healthier you. The Gut Makeover is base (...)

SNEB Past President Highlight: Audrey N. Maretzki, PhD

Audrey N. Maretzki, PhD
Posted by: on Saturday July 15, 2017 Audrey N. Maretzki, PhD , is Professor Emerita of Food Science and Nutrition in the Department of Food Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, Co-Director of the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge, and served as SNEB president in 1985. She was the first to serve as both president and as editor of the Journal of Nutrition. In her time with SNEB, Maretzki said she made wonderful friends she could count on for professional assistance, amo (...)

Meet the Exhibitor: Fresh Baby

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Posted by: on Saturday July 15, 2017 Fresh Baby is a National Strategic Partner with the USDA and Drink Up Campaign sponsor. For more than 14 years, Fresh Baby has been supporting public health programs with obesity prevention solutions that motivate participants to make healthy choices. Be sure to stop by the Fresh Baby booth #25 for a chance to win a $100 Fresh Baby gift certificate. Check out the NEW Fresh Baby products today! For more information about Fresh Baby and how they can support your nutrition education program (...)

Meet the Sponsor: United Sorghum Checkoff Program

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Posted by: on Saturday July 15, 2017 The United Sorghum Checkoff Program has been working with checkoff dollars to help improve profitability for sorghum producers nationwide. Since 2008, the Sorghum Checkoff has enhanced its efforts in the areas of research, promotion and information to help sorghum producers yield greater financial return. Today, the economic picture for sorghum is bright with greater acreage being devoted to sorghum and increased demand coming from foreign markets and right here in the U.S. (...)

Meet the Exhibitor: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)

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Posted by: on Friday July 14, 2017 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition promotes and protects the public’s health and economic interests by ensuring that food is safe, nutritious, wholesome and honestly, accurately and informatively labeled. (...)

SNEB Foundation Scholarship Spotlight: ?lise Jalbert-Arsenault, Dt.P. M.Sc.(C)

Élise Jalbert-Arsenault, Dt.P. M.Sc.(C)
Posted by: on Thursday July 13, 2017 Élise Jalbert-Arsenault, Dt.P. M.Sc.(C), received  SNEB Foundation Student Scholarships at the 2015 and 2016 Annual Conferences in Pittsburgh, Penn. and San Diego, Calif. With these scholarships, she was able to attend her first international conference and give her first presentation outside of Canada. Jalbert-Arsenault said she has many wonderful memories from the conferences from both the activities and the people she met. "These conferences were amazing occasions to meet other dietician (...)