joshua iufer

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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The Safest Food in the Room

February 16, 2015 by joshua iufer

I had a reader ask about food safety recently and the more I thought about it the more I realized it’s not often talked about. Look for an article on nutrition and you’ll find hundreds, look for something on food safety and you’re lucky to get even a few bites. Surprisingly enough, Dietitians are trained in food safety as well. Any career in Food Service, be it management, health inspector, or menu development, requires a decent understanding of food safety. It makes […]

Categories: FOOD • Tags: Advice, Cooking, Diet, Dietitian, Food, Food Safety

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Updates & Upgrades

February 11, 2015 by joshua iufer

It might not seem like much but there’s been some serious behind the scenes work going on around here. This might be a slight rant here but for all those who are new to blogging or thinking of starting your own, you’ll want to read ahead. WordPress is a great service and I do mean that with all honesty. It’s easy to get going, easy to start writing, and somewhat easy to customize. The problem, is that WordPress is a used-car salesman, […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Blogging, Diet, Dietitian, Webstore, Wordpress

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Lessons Learned From 182 Weigh-Ins

January 27, 2015 by joshua iufer

Digital Health is here to stay and by most predictions will be one of the defining technology movements through 2020. For those that might not recognize the term, digital health is the coming together of technology, computers, data, and the entire Health field. What this means for us is difficult to pinpoint, but an example would be pairing gene testing with a specific diet, or letting your doctor access your Jawbone Up data to make better suggestions. I’ve mentioned the former […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Body Scale, Data Analytics, Dietitian, Digital Health, Nutrition, Quantifiedself, Weight

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A Modern History of Diets

January 12, 2015 by joshua iufer

It’s an interesting thing that so little of my actual experience revolves around “fad” diets. With a title like Dietitian you’d think there would at least be some course or seminar somewhere in my career that broke it all down. It’s the opposite in fact, I could probably count the number of fad diets mentioned in a medical setting on one hand. Step out into mainstream nutrition and suddenly everything is “diet this” and “diet that”. So over time I’ve […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: atkins, Dieting, Dietitian, History-of-diets, ornish, Paleo

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Keto Brain

December 31, 2014 by joshua iufer

It’s surprisingly common nowadays for people to hear about a diet, decide to follow it, but have little understanding as to how or why. I would say at least a quarter of the people I talk to who claim to be on a specific diet aren’t actually following it, simply from lack of understanding. So to start the new year I decided to dig into the diet I see this with the most, the Ketogenic (otherwise known as Keto) diet. What is […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Dietitian, Digital Health, Keto, Ketogenic

Nutrition By The Numbers 2014 Edition

December 18, 2014 by joshua iufer

Every year I like to do a post highlighting some of the trends in nutrition for the previous 12 months. It’s a way of peeking in at the underlying forces driving us, to try predicting what we’ll see in 2015 and beyond. If you haven’t checked out last years version, take a jump over to True Trends Don’t Lie real quick. For all of these I use Google Trends to see what’s being searched, you can do it yourself if you’re curious. […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Diet, Digital Health, Fitness, Food, Nutrition, Technology, Wearables

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Author Archives: joshua iufer

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

Go Ahead, Ask an Expert

Who Says You Shouldn’t Eat Meat?

The Safest Food in the Room

Updates & Upgrades

Lessons Learned From 182 Weigh-Ins

A Modern History of Diets

Keto Brain

Nutrition By The Numbers 2014 Edition