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E-Newsletter • December 2024 |
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Editor's E-Note
What’s on the Menu for TD in 2025?
Welcoming the holiday season and looking ahead to 2025 may bring excitement but may also come with its share of stress. In this month’s E-News Exclusive, Today’s Dietitian (TD) broaches the timely topic of stress-eating, offering key scientific insights into the physiology of stress-eating as well as providing practical tips for managing it.
After reading the article, visit TD’s website at www.TodaysDietitian.com to read the digital edition of our November/December issue. There, you can find articles on artificial intelligence in dietetics, how new generation weight loss drugs are impacting dietetics, medically tailored meals, and the rise of zero-waste retailers. You can also learn more about traditional African fermented foods and the role of the interprofessional team—with sports RDs leading the way—in collegiate athletics.
Setting our sights on 2025, TD is delighted to bring you several fresh developments in issue content, including a new dietitian-driven Trend Watch column, a new Cultural Foodways department, additional resources for interns/students and newly-minted RDs, special offers for readers to win free access to clinical support tools, and a rousing series of Great Debate features looking at some of the most hotly contested topics in nutrition science. We look forward to having you with us in 2025 to savor all this and more.
Please enjoy the E-Newsletter and give us your feedback at TDeditor@gvpub.com. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter.
From all of us at TD, we wish you a safe and healthy holiday season and a joyous New Year!
—Heather Davis, MS, RDN, LDN, editor |
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Hacking Holiday Stress-Eating
By Heather Davis, MS, RDN, LDN
The winter holiday season ushers in many familiar hurdles, especially for those who are traveling, navigating challenging family and social dynamics, or trying to stay on track with their health and nutrition goals while being inundated by holiday food marketing—which, let’s face it, may not always highlight the most balanced options available. Add to this the fact that the 2024 US presidential election process has heightened psychosocial stress for many individuals,1 and you have a perfect recipe for stress-eating heading into the end of the year. What can dietitians do to support the health of their clients and patients during this tumultuous time? Some answers to this question may seem obvious, but others may surprise you.
It's important to understand that stress tends to beget more stress. For example, when individuals are pushed to meet heightened psychosocial demands, such as a tight schedule with impending deadlines, other secondary stressors may appear on the scene with more frequency, such as erratic eating patterns. These erratic eating patterns may themselves be stressors, inviting nutrient imbalances or additional biochemical shifts—many of which are also stressors—in the form of compensatory metabolic changes impacting the physiology of mood, sleep, cognition, digestion, and more. As this stress snowball builds, it may be harder to get a good night’s sleep, itself an additional stressor to add to the mix and one that can further drive stress-eating behaviors. Chronic stress-induced dysregulations in neurotransmitter metabolism, such as changes in the dopaminergic system, among other pathways, can alter behavioral responses to different stimuli that are associated with reward anticipation.2 In some ways, this means it may also feel harder to get motivated to jump back on track once we’ve slipped.
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New US Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth Reveals Continued Low Levels of Physical Activity
The Physical Activity Alliance, the nation’s largest national coalition dedicated to advancing regular participation in physical activity, released the 2024 United States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The overall physical activity grade for children and youth remained low at D-, the same grade it received in 2022, the last time a report was made.
The 2024 Executive Summary and Full Report are provided here.
The grade was derived from National Survey of Children’s Health and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data that showed the following:
- Only 20% to 28% of 6- to 17-year-olds meet the 60 minutes of daily physical activity recommended by the US Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
- The proportion of children who meet the physical activity guidelines has decreased slightly since 2016, when these data were first available.
Amanda Staiano, PhD, director of the Pediatric Obesity and Healthy Behavior Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical, served as cochair of the report card committee, and Katie Spring, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow in the Pediatric Obesity and Healthy Behavior Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical, also served as a committee member.
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Ozempic and Wegovy May Help Curb Alcohol Cravings, Study Suggests
Researchers discovered that those taking a GLP-1 medication, such as semaglutide, had a lower risk of being hospitalized for alcohol-related problems in a study of almost 228,000 individuals with alcohol use disorder in Sweden, reports NBC News. According to one view, its benefits might be related to the medications' capacity to create a sense of fullness. That might lessen drug and alcohol cravings in the same way that medications do the same with food cravings.
Fish Oil Supplements Might Help Prevent Cancer
A new study suggests that the omega-3s and omega-6s found in fish oil supplements may help protect against cancer, reports U.S. News. The study used data from the UK Biobank and looked at more than 253,000 individuals. |
CPE Monthly
Learn the scope of heavy metal contamination of global food sources and strategies to manage this public health hazard in this month’s issue of Today’s Dietitian. Read the CPE Monthly article, take the 10-question online test at CE.TodaysDietitian.com/CPEmonthly, and earn two CPEUs!
2025 Spring Symposium
Make plans to join us this May 4–7 in San Antonio, Texas. Earn at least 15 CEUs with interactive educational sessions, workshops, and presentations led by some of the foremost experts in dietetics and nutrition. Register now to take advantage of Advance Registration savings!
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Streamlining Practice
NutriAdmin is a comprehensive client management tool for RDs. It helps streamline appointment scheduling, meal planning, and client progress tracking. With customizable templates, built-in intake forms, and secure data storage, NutriAdmin helps professionals manage their practice efficiently.
Fitness Trainers in Your Ear
Aaptiv is an audio-guided fitness app offering a wide range of workouts, from running to strength training, led by expert trainers. The app helps users stay active and reach fitness goals anywhere and includes motivating playlists and tailored programs. Aaptiv can be downloaded on iOS or Google Play Store. |
In the January Issue
• Food Waste Solutions in the 2024 Farm Bill
• The Risks of Undereating for Weight Loss
• Unpacking Nondietitian Nutrition Credentials
• Supplements for Athletes |
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COVER STORY
Artificial Intelligence in Dietetics
AI technology is here but what does this mean for RDs and nutrition practice? Discover how and why dietitians are necessary to support the evolution of the tech-enhanced world of health care and how to stay up to date on the latest innovations in the industry.
FEATURE
The Impact of New Weight Loss Drugs on Dietetics
How have advances in new weight loss medications affected dietetics? To understand their impacts on nutrition care, Today’s Dietitian talked to weight-inclusive and weight-management dietitians, and those in between.
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