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The Iceberg of Success

July 14, 2017 by joshua iufer

“Accomplishment is 99% work and 1% acknowledgement.” I never really thought about what it takes to receive acknowledgement in a professional sense until I started working in healthcare. So often the work we do feels unrecognized that I’m more used to not receiving praise and just being happy when a patient has no complaints. Nurses, doctors, dietitians, I think it’s almost a universal that “no complaints” is as good as “great job!”. So imagine my surprise when my advocacy to […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Dietitian, Food, Foodservice, HEALTHCARE, Medicine, Nutrition, Nutritionist, restaurant

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Grazers Immunity

February 22, 2016 by joshua iufer

I was thinking the other day during my annual flu shot about this idea of herd immunity. For those that don’t know, herd immunity is the idea that when you have a group of 10 people, if 9 of them receive a vaccine then the last person is indirectly protected (at least within their normal circle of friends). This has been shown countless time with the HPV vaccine most young girls receive. I wondered whether this might show up elsewhere in […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Dietitian, Food, Health, Meals, moderation, Paleo, real food

(Un)Healthy Showmanship

December 12, 2015 by joshua iufer

Hey Foodies! Sometimes picking my fingers back up feels like waking from a long nap, slightly creaky, a little groggy. Part of my quiet has been a major life change, a move, closer to family and childhood friends. But the other part is simply a lack of inspiration. I have always held that I didn’t want to write about something that I didn’t feel strongly about. I’m not in this for the views, I’m just looking to provide a reasonable perspective on […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Food, Meals, Nutritionist, Paleo

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How the Wild Web was Lost

June 3, 2015 by joshua iufer

The Internet at times can be equally terrifying and beautiful. I’m part of the first generation that grew up entirely with computers, and as far as I can remember it’s been a daily necessity. As a child of Silicon Valley, I had computers in my Kindergarten class. Even before that I can remember playing educational games like Bookworm and Math Blaster on our PC at home. To say that I can’t imagine a World without computers would be putting it […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: bullying, Censorship, Doxing, Internet, Millennial, Shaming, Vigilante

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The Rise of Brain Diets

May 13, 2015 by joshua iufer

I’m often asked about the newest trends in healthy eating, which is an easier question to ask than answer. As a Dietitian my “Diet Philosophy” so to speak isn’t based on the newest fad diet or whatever the newest nutrition celebrity eats, but on a long-standing body of evidence that I slowly tweak as new studies come to light. Granted that’s pretty boring and not the answer most people want to hear. I think we all wish that the answer to a healthy […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Brain, Cognitive, Dementia, Dietitian, Healthy, Mind diet, Nootropic

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Hungry Hungry HIPAA

April 21, 2015 by joshua iufer

You’ve probably heard about the insane number of startups grabbing funding lately. What you might not realize is that the fastest growing areas for startups are Food and Healthcare. Despite the computer, internet, and smartphone revolutions these two fields have been largely immune from the benefits of technology, mostly for the worse. There is incredible potential for integrating medicine with technology, and using it as a subtle teaching aid in the process. We are literally sitting on a $1.2 trillion US food […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Digital Health, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, Nutrition, Technology

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PSA: Flu Season Is Never Really Over

April 9, 2015 by joshua iufer

It’s rare to go a week without seeing a patient with the Flu. Some of the time they outright deny that they could have the flu, “But it’s not flu season anymore”, they say to me. Well, here’s the catch. Flu season depends on the weather more than the month. With the impressively cold late winter and early spring across the United States this year, flu season has been longer than ever. So to help you out I thought I’d […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Flu, Handwashing, Health, illness, safety

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The 5 Dietitians You’ll Meet in Healthcare

April 7, 2015 by joshua iufer

In last weeks post you probably learned more than you ever wanted to learn about your body and certain, uh, involuntary processes. So this week I thought I’d keep things a little more lighthearted. Whether you like to admit it or not there are reasons why stereotypes exist. I think it’s a natural part of how our brains compartmentalize and make rapid fight or flight decisions in a fraction of a second. Now that’s not to say stereotyping is good, […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Dietitian, Health, HEALTHCARE, Nutrition, Observations, Personalities, Psychology

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That Takes Guts: Questions You’re Too Squeamish to Ask

March 26, 2015 by joshua iufer

The strangest thing I’ve learned as a Dietitian is that people really enjoy talking about their bodys functions. The strangest part is that everybody does it, yet in most situations people get nervous and red-faced talking about it. I think being in a medical setting where it’s discussed more professionally helps relive this tension and suddenly you find yourself 30 minutes into a conversation about what they saw or didn’t see in the bathroom that week. Over time you accept […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: GI, Gut, Health, Nutrition, Potty, Stool

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Go Ahead, Ask an Expert

March 18, 2015 by joshua iufer

I realized recently that over all the time I’ve talked about what I do or what I’ve noticed in this profession, I’ve never really talked about what a consultation looks like. Over the past few years I’ve worked at trying to bring the quality of my private consults (the ones done for a family-member, or neighbor, or friend of a friend), up to the same degree as the ones I do within a hospital setting. In the hospital time is short and […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Advice, Coach, Consultation, Dietitian, Expert, Health, Nutrition

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Who Says You Shouldn’t Eat Meat?

February 27, 2015 by joshua iufer

Have you ever wondered whether us humans were meant to eat meat? What about animal products in general? I don’t want to convert you or convince you and I certainly don’t want to delve into ethics or the environment. All I want is to present a case for our biological preference for animal-foods, without all the politics. In a roundabout way, Nutrition is really the science of what our bodies can’t make themselves. After all, if humans could photosynthesize like plants, […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Dietitian, Health, Meat, Omnivore, Paleo, Vitamins

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Starving Dietitian

Author Archives: joshua iufer

The Iceberg of Success

Top 5 Starving Dietitian Posts (chosen by me)

Grazers Immunity

(Un)Healthy Showmanship

How the Wild Web was Lost

The Rise of Brain Diets

Hungry Hungry HIPAA

PSA: Flu Season Is Never Really Over

The 5 Dietitians You’ll Meet in Healthcare

That Takes Guts: Questions You’re Too Squeamish to Ask

Go Ahead, Ask an Expert

Who Says You Shouldn’t Eat Meat?