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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. I'm Paige, your host, and today I have Melissa Joy Dobbins with us, who is a registered

dietitian and a certified diabetic educator and that last part will come into play in this conversation today.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to introduce her to all of you.

And then I'm going to explain what we're talking about and also just let you know how you can get in touch with Melissa

because she's doing a lot of really fun things in her professional life too so Melissa is an award-winning and nationally recognized

registered dietitian she's a speaker a blogger and also a podcaster who also trains other

dietitians in the in the world of media for more than 20 years.

She has, she's a certified diabetic educator, as I mentioned.

She's a former supermarket dietitian and also a former national media spokesperson

for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

And for those of you who may not know, that is our kind of national organization for dietitians.

So, Melissa, is the guilt-free RD because food shouldn't make you feel bad.

And she is the CEO of SoundBites Incorporated,

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