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Healthy Holiday Survival Guide
From Thanksgiving to New Years, the holiday season is one of the hardest times to keep your health on track…
Read MoreDon't Let Your Candy Consumption Spook You This Halloween!
How to avoid those extra candy pounds this Halloween!
Read MoreThe Great Chocolate Milk Debate
Should chocolate milk be allowed in schools? This question is debatable, but dietitians should know how to respond. Chocolate milk like everything else can be healthy in moderation!
Read MoreSeptember 22- Food Psychology: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Speaker: James E. Painter, PhD, RD
Read MoreNovember 17- Marketing the Registered Dietetian
A panel discussion on “marketing the RD”…
Read MoreFebruary 16- Probiotics (Joint Meeting with CASPEN)
Speaker: Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD
Read MoreArtificial Sweeteners and Sugars
Melissa Dobbins is a registered dietitian and a spokesperson for the Illinois Dietetic Association. She shares some important information on sugar and artificial sweeteners. One in four children and one in three teen girls exceeds the maximum recommended intake of sugar. In addition, nine out of 10 Americans buy or use low-calorie products including sugar-free…
Read MoreInformation, recipes for diabetics
Melissa Joy Dobbins is a registered dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator, and a spokesperson for the Illinois Dietetic Association. She visits ABC7 Chicago to share some important information about diabetes. About 122 million Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes (elevated blood sugars that are not yet high enough to qualify as diabetes) and about 40 percent…
Read MoreCatch a CDA ad on a bus this March!
For National Nutrition Month this March, CDA will be running an ad on 10 bus lines throughout Chicago. Click to preview the ad
Read MoreA small glimpse of our Fall meeting
The Chicago Dietetic Association focused on vitamin D for their Fall meeting titled, “What might be the health of the U.S. population if we all had enough vitamin D?” Our speaker, Dr. Robert P. Heaney, MD, FACP, FACN was brilliant. He had the crowd laughing and learning at the same time. Overall it was a great…
Read MoreNovember is National Diabetes Month
One of our state media reps, Melissa Joy Dobbins, RD, CDE, was recently interviewed on ABC news discussing diabetes and National Diabetes month. See what all she had to say by watching her video and reading the article. Click here.
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