Visiting Assistant Professor Henna Muzaffar has been named the Early Career Award winner for the Nutrition Education & Behavioral Science Research Interest Section of the American Society for Nutrition. She received the award earlier this month at the ASN conference in Baltimore.
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Happy finals week! This week is usually filled with stress and anxiety. So, what better way of reducing that stress through some pet therapy. The second year dietetic interns were so kind as to share some pictures of their furry pets. Enjoy!
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Several first-year nutrition graduate students presented Health Impact Assessment (HIA) posters recently, their final class project for HLTH 600 Nutrition seminar class. In groups of four, students conducted an HIA (screening, scoping, assessment and recommendations) on a chosen topic. Students then prepared
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Last Friday, April 12th, the second year Dietetic Interns (DI) finished up their semester of seminars with an all area workshop on sports nutrition. The nutrition seminar consisted of DIs from all over the Chicago land area. Some of the topics discussed
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An interesting story on NPR indicates that the way that humans eat is linked to preserving the wildlife. Think about the food you typically eat and ask yourself when was the last time you tried something new? The World Wide Fund for
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Being in graduate school, I think it is safe to assume that the awareness of stress exists every day. With deadlines and balancing multiple roles, it can be overwhelming. Yet, with a busy life, it is hard to acknowledge the role stress
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I feel like its been so long since I talked about general nutrition information. Not going to lie, this semester has been brutal. So brutal, that I forgot to acknowledge the best month out of the year, National Nutrition Month®. During the
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That is a wrap! The second year dietetic interns are all finished with their superhero Special Dinners. Now, NIU has to wait until Fall 2019, for the next installment of themed dinners taking place in Neptune, New Hall, and Gilbert. If you
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It’s March, which means it is Special Dinner time! Every Fall and Spring semester, the dietetic interns put on a themed dinner within the dining halls. Being a dietetic intern, myself, I am part of the Neptune dining hall festivities of a
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Dolls and action figures are a main part of childhood. At a young age, I, was obsessed with dolls. I had every type of barbie you could imagine, with every outfit and shoe to match. Innocent, at the time, the exposure to
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Over 250 NIU students recently participated in the seventh annual Interdisciplinary Case Study Event–an event that brings together students from audiology, counseling, dietetics, medical laboratory sciences, nursing, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology to discuss issues related to providing quality health care to
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Did you know that an estimated 20 million women and 10 million men in America will have an eating disorder at some point in their lives? Did you know anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder? The shock
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