dietitian online

This week, thanks to Alex Steffan’s Worldchanging post, I discovered a real gem to help broaden and deepen my nutrition knowledge and take it well beyond its usual geographic and professional interest boundaries. The Weblog is: 

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

A good place to begin exploring the blog is on the About page. Then, as dietitians, we probably will want to check out the posts in the Nutrition, Organic Agriculture, Cooking, Fruits & Nuts,  Vegetables, and Nibbles.

I’m working my way through the nutrition archive today. Here is a sample of well-written posts on various topics: 

Food is good
Kids eat more if fruit and veg are home-grown
School gardens
Heirlooms are better for you

At this year’s Dietitians of Canada national conference, we scanned the horizon and learned what the future holds for dietetic practice.

My brain is brimming over with information that needs to be processed, my dining room table is groaning under the weight of handouts and product samples, and my inner drive is revved up with inspiration–all of this requires me to do some blogging!

 Posts to come on: (1) Silken Laumann’s keynote presentation, (2) the vision of our future practice, (3) the power of PEN, (4) vitamin D, (5) the inaugural meeting of the Vegetarian network.

Today I’ve added Liz Pearson’s website to the sidebar. 

“Liz’s approach to healthy eating is sane and sensible. She communicates timely, relevant nutrition research, while emphasizing the need for fun food (like chocolate!) in moderation.”

On her bright, refreshing site, Dietitian Patricia Chuey explains how to “simplify, nourish and soar.”

Today I am alternating between two tasks that I would rather put off until tomorrow. Both require agonizing decision-making about what to discard and what to keep: I am (1) pruning and re-organizing my home office files and (2) working on a first draft of an upcoming Practice article. If you suspect I am procrastinating by blogging–you are right.

So this post will be very brief for the reason stated above.

I have just added a new category to the right side of the page: Dietitians’ Websites. To give you time to read the wealth of information on Leslie Beck’s site, I may not post again for the rest of the week…which would would give me time to complete the tasks I mentioned at the start of this post.

Now, please excuse me as I get back to reading blogs, reading the latest issue of Canadian House and Home that arrived in the mail today work.

I love this photo. I searched and searched for an image to depict people interacting– communicating, connecting and caring.

Image credit: Touch, a Creative Commons licensed photo by chrisevans on Flickr.

Connotea, a Web-based reference management tool for clinicians and scientists,  is everything (and more) I was looking for in a social bookmarking tool. It allows me to:
- quickly and easily save, organize and retrieve links to references
- share references with my colleagues
- access my library of references from any computer

Discover Connotea here: http://www.connotea.org/.

 I’ve been adding to my Connotea library daily. Feel free to check it out.