Bonnie Taub-Dix, RDN - Media Trainer, Nutrition Consultant, Author
Trustworthy information matters. Knowing how to explain it matters just as much.I’m Bonnie Taub-Dix, MA, RDN, CDN, author of Read It Before You Eat It – Taking You from Label to Table and Louder Than Likes: How to Amplify Your Expertise and Make Media Work for You.BTD News Digest brings together nutrition insights, media know-how, and practical ideas to help make good information easier to understand and use.Whether you’re here to learn, make sense of what you’re hearing, communicate more clearly, or make media work for you, you’ll find ideas you can actually use.
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The List You Keep Leaving Yourself Off
Hi Reader! Somewhere between finishing the book, moderating a conference session, and recording podcast episodes, I realized I hadn't picked up a paintbrush in months. I think a lot of us who are in the business of showing up for others forget to show up for ourselves in the quieter ways, whether that's the creative detour, the walk without an agenda, or the thing you loved before your career took over your time. So I picked up the brush again. Painting asks something different of me than...
READ POSTInformation is everywhere. Trust is not.
Hi Reader! Last week my son got married in Napa. Big old tree, gorgeous vineyard, perfect weather, people we love all around us and so much warmth in that room that the word "magical" doesn't quite cover it, though it's the one I keep reaching for. Watching the two of them begin their life together, surrounded by every person who matters to them, I was reminded of something that I think about a lot but don't always say out loud: there is nothing like being in a room full of people who...
READ POSTThe new influencer? It might be you. 🤔
Hi Reader! For a long time, the word “influencer” didn’t feel like it belonged to people like us. It belonged to the people with the ring lights and the millions of followers and the sponsored everything. The ones who seemed to have cracked some code that the rest of us, the credentialed, the experienced, the actually-trained-in-this professionals, were somehow excluded from. Well. Something has shifted. Brands are waking up to what many of us already knew: a smaller, more engaged, more...
READ POSTEveryone's noticing. Nobody's talking. (About this.)
Hi Reader! Have you noticed it too? A quiet shift in rooms full of women you know well. Book clubs. Dinners. Catch-ups with old friends. A change in who's reaching for the cookie tray, and who isn't. A shift in the language too, from "I've been so good this week" to "I can barely finish what's on my plate." Nobody's saying it out loud. But everyone's noticing. I named that feeling in a personal essay I wrote for PROVOKED Magazine called "GLP-1 Envy: Let's Talk." It's the first piece I've...
READ POSTIs Instagram working for you? (If not, read this)
Hi Reader! I wasn't sure what to expect when Louder Than Likes: How to Amplify Your Expertise and Make Media Work for You finally launched. You spend a long time writing something, pouring everything you know into it, and then the day comes when it's done and it's out there. But it was when the comments and reviews started coming in, that I was genuinely moved. One reader wrote that the book gave her “insider secrets you can only get from someone with tons of real-world media experience.”...
READ POSTStill waiting to be discovered? 🤷🏻♀️
Hi Reader! The response to my last newsletter took my breath away. So many of you reached out after I announced Louder Than Likes: How to Amplify Your Expertise and Make Media Work for You, with congratulations, with excitement, and with something that meant even more: you nudged your colleagues, your friends, and your fellow RDs to be among the first 100 to grab a copy and claim the companion workbook. That kind of generosity doesn't go unnoticed. Thank you, truly, from the bottom of my...
READ POSTThe news I've been waiting to share.
It's here. The book I've been writing, rewriting, losing sleep over, and pouring everything into is officially real ... and you are the very first people to see it. I'm talking title. Cover. The whole thing. For those of you who got my last newsletter, you knew something was coming. Today is that day. And for anyone seeing this for the first time: hi, pull up a chair, because I have news. The book is called Louder Than Likes: How to Amplify Your Expertise and Make Media Work for You. My...
READ POSTBefore I tell anyone else...
Hi Reader! OK so I have some news. Big news. The kind I've been trying to keep to myself for way too long…and anyone who knows me knows that is not my strong suit. 😄 I wrote a book. My second book. And I am equal parts thrilled, terrified, and ready. I can't share the title just yet but here's what I can tell you: I wrote it for every health professional who has ever known exactly what to say and still felt like no one was really listening. It's about showing up as the expert you already are....
READ POSTJust In: What's Shaping Your Food Beliefs (Hint: It's Not the Food)
Hi Reader! So, a question for you: What if the biggest influence on your food choices isn't hunger, or habit, or even health ... but a headline? 🤔 We’re living in a time where food has become -- kind of political. What you put on your plate isn’t just about nutrition anymore. It can reflect your values, your circle, maybe even how you see the world. And the media (both social and traditional) knows exactly how to tap into that. Because nothing grabs attention quite like a good food fight....
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