Supermarket RDN Spotlight: Elizabeth Hall – Navigating Nutrition in the Aisles and Beyond

Mar 9, 2022

By: Krystal Register, MS, RDN, LDN, Senior Director, Health & Well-being, FMI

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day, also called “RDN Day” is well known yearly throughout National Nutrition Month^® on the second Wednesday in March. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the Academy) established this event to extend consciousness of registered dietitian nutritionists because the “indispensable suppliers of meals and vitamin providers” and to thank RDNs for his or her dedication to serving to individuals get pleasure from wholesome lives.

As a part of RDN Day, we needed to acknowledge and rejoice the various RDNs that work throughout the whole meals business, devoted to connecting meals and vitamin to improved well being for all shoppers. To correctly body this celebration, we related with Dr. Elizabeth Hall who has practiced as an RDN in scientific, foodservice, behavioral well being, and most extensively within the enterprise/retail atmosphere as a dietitian for Okay-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. for many of the previous seven years. Well-known within the grocery store dietitian world as a strategic chief, Dr. Hall can be a passionate researcher and educator, at the moment serving as assistant professor within the dietetics program at Harding University. Dr. Hall’s contributions are outstanding, as she is paving the way in which and guiding future RDNs to succeed as effectively. She has been concerned as an advisor and content material developer for a lot of Academy assets by offering her experience within the shopper vitamin atmosphere and grocery store setting that can show useful for meals retail RDNs throughout the nation for a few years to come back.  

Register: So, we needed to ask… If you discovered your self on an elevator surrounded by meals business CEO’s, what would you need them to find out about registered dietitian nutritionists?

Dr. Hall: Registered Dietitian Nutritionists are well-respected well being professionals who’re meals and vitamin specialists. Nutrition-related illnesses like coronary heart illness and diabetes proceed to extend in our communities. Your clients and staff are ‘hungry’ for path in the case of selecting meals that greatest help well being. RDNs have probably the most experience to teach, counsel, and share the message of meals as medication in your group.

Register: What would you inform these CEOs in regards to the potential for RDNs within the meals retail setting?

Dr. Hall: As grocery shops evolve as a vacation spot for well being and well-being, the RDN is probably the most certified well being skilled to assist bridge the gaps between meals alternative and prevention and administration of illness. Supporting the well being of our communities shouldn’t be solely an vital accountability of meals retailers however may also be a major enterprise alternative. The RDN is instrumental in strategizing, implementing, and evaluating well being and well-being applications in retail.

Register: What last phrases of knowledge do you will have for different retail RDNs on the market? 

Dr. Hall: As a meals retail RDN, your attain is expansive, and you’ve got the chance to intervene within the atmosphere the place most individuals make their choices about meals – the grocery retailer!  Happy RDN Day to all registered dietitian nutritionists and thanks in your unimaginable work!