
308. Tamara Melton on the Need to Diversify the World of Nutrition and Dietetics
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
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Diversified Dietetics - Why It's So Important
Diversified dietetics is a non profit working to increase the racial and ic diversity in the field of nutrition by empowering leaders of color. About 70% of our profession, almost 80 % is white females. And so we saw this lack of diversity as an issue that could not be solved by our white pers basically. The reason why this is important is because we're that one discipline that works with people with their food.
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