08/16/2022 - Children’s nutritional needs change as they grow. During Kids Eat Right Month™, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages parents and caregivers to help children develop healthful eating habits as they mature into adulthood.
08/02/2022 - Hospitals, medium and large medical practices and other health care facilities will be able to improve the quality of care for patients with malnutrition and reduce hospital stays and costs through a new opportunity resulting from work by the Academy and Avalere Health that was recently approved by the CMS.
08/01/2022 - The Academy encourages parents and caregivers to help children establish healthful eating habits as summer winds down and kids prepare to head back to school.
07/14/2022 - Supply chain shortages have been frustrating to caregivers in search of infant formulas to feed their children. With some relief in sight as retailers slowly restock their shelves with domestic and imported formulas, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages consumers to select the formulas that best meet the nutritional needs of their infants and children.
06/21/2022 - The Academy strongly supports the new Keep Kids Fed Act, introduced June 21 in Congress, as a crucial step in addressing nutrition security among school-aged children in the United States.
06/01/2022 - The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, has appointed eight registered dietitian nutritionists to three-year terms as media spokespeople and reappointed five spokespeople to another term.
06/01/2022 - National leaders in nutrition, health and business will serve as the 2022-2023 Board of Directors of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Representing more than 112,000 credentialed practitioners, the Academy is the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals.
06/01/2022 - RDN Ellen R. Shanley, the dietetics director in the department of allied health sciences at the University of Connecticut’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, began her year-long term on June 1 as the 2022-2023 President of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
05/23/2022 - The Academy is rallying support for a bill that would offer more opportunities for working mothers to breastfeed their babies by expanding workplace accommodations.
05/05/2022 - The White House’s May 4 announcement that it will host a conference on hunger, nutrition and health in September is an imperative investment in addressing national issues that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics strongly supports: nutrition security, health equity and prevention of diet-related chronic diseases.
03/28/2022 - The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is offering more than half a million dollars in scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year.
03/09/2022 -In March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics focuses attention on healthful eating through NNM and honors the food and nutrition experts on March 9: RDN Day.
03/01/2022 - In March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics focuses attention on healthful eating through National Nutrition Month®. This year's theme, Celebrate a World of Flavors, embraces global cultures, cuisines and inclusivity, plus highlights the expertise of registered dietitian nutritionists.
02/22/2022 - The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages everyone to "Celebrate a World of Flavors" in their meals while still eating nutritious foods and beverages during National Nutrition Month® 2022.
02/18/2022 - The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics supports the February 18 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling applying precedent in a Florida case that upholds professional licensure laws protecting consumers from the harm they can suffer from health care services provided by unqualified and unlicensed practitioners.
02/17/2022 - Registered dietitian nutritionists, who are the food and nutrition experts, can help decrease the number of children diagnosed with overweight or obesity by collaborating with caregivers, educators, health care providers and legislators to provide children with nutritious foods and opportunities for physical activity, according to a new position paper from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
02/15/2022 - Amid supply chain-related shortages at grocery stores, the Academy provides recommendations for creating healthful meals.
02/01/2022 - For National Nutrition Month® 2022, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics provides healthful tips for people with Type 2 diabetes.
11/17/2021 - The 2022 theme, Celebrate a World of Flavors, embraces global cultures, cuisines and inclusion, plus showcases the expertise of registered dietitian nutritionists.
11/17/2021 - The first investigation into the prevalence of dietary supplement and sport food use in male and female middle school-aged runners has found that almost half the study participants used these products on two or more days a week during the prior year.
