Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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I'm Melanie Beasley and I'm in studio this morning with Carolyn Hudson.

We are both registered in licensed dietitians with many years of experience helping people with their nutrition and their weight loss.

I personally have about 30 years of experience as a dietitian,

and I've worked in a lot of different types of settings. Part of my career was working in the

Colorado State Penitentiary as a dietitian, and I also did a lot of my training in the Navy

as a dietitian. So I have indeed worked with a wide variety of clientele. And Carolyn,

you received your training in Canada, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. I went to school in Toronto, Ontario.

So I loved my education there. It was kind of different from some of the nutrition programs here.

It was very hands-on.

And we actually did things like this, like we're doing here in studio today.

So we got to practice, you know, speaking in front of people and giving a lot of presentations

and doing some radio work as well.

So, yeah, I went to school in Canada,

and I actually spent a number of years working as a dietitian,

not just in remote villages, like way up in Hudson's Bay.

But I also worked in large metropolitan areas.

I went to school in Toronto,

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