Nutrition Unplugged

Have you heard, it’s National Nutrition Month — an annual celebration sponsored each March by the American Dietetic Association. Today is especially note worthy. It’s Registered Dietitian Day.

It’s a great time to recognize the valuable contributions RDs make to help people live healthier lives. Increasingly, dietitians are contributing to the blogosphere — helping to provide reliable, trusted nutrition advice online.

I’m trying to help RDs get an even louder voice online with the Nutrition Blog Network, which I recently wrote about. This new site of RD bloggers isn’t quite ready to launch, but we’re getting close. So stay tuned.

In the meantime, two of my RD colleagues have created a Registered Dietitian Blogfest to commemorate Registered Dietitian Day — which is a tremendous idea. The Blogfest was created by Monika of InCyst Network and Renata of Nurturing Notes. They asked this question of dietitians: If you had one message to give, what would it be?

Take a look at the participants and their responses: [click to continue…]

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I was happy to be included in an article on food and nutrition blogs in the Chicago Tribune. Click HERE to take a look. Many of the blogs featured in the article are hosted by registered dietitians like myself, which is great to see! Increasingly the Internet is a primary source of nutrition information, but sometimes the reliability can be sketchy. So it’s important to look at who’s behind the blog.

A new report from eMarketer titled The Blogosphere: A-Twitter with Activity says the blogosphere has reached a point where it is no longer distinct from mainstream media. Today, 96.6 million people are blog readers, representing 48.5% of U.S. Internet users. By 2013, that number is predicted to be 128.2 million or 58% of the Internet population.

eMarketer also says the number of bloggers will rise, though not at the same rate as the number of blog readers. By 2013, 37.6 million U.S. Internet users will have a blog that they update at least once a month. When it comes to nutrition blogs, here’s wishing for quality over quantity!