Welcome to the Nutrition Diva Podcast, a show where we take a closer look at health

headlines, nutrition news and trends so that you can make more informed choices

about what you eat. I'm your host, Monica Reinagal, and I have a special guest today.

Registered Dietition Nutritionist Melissa Yeager is here with me.

She is the head of nutrition for my fitness pal.

Welcome to the podcast, Melissa.

Thank you so much for having me. Now most people will be

familiar with my fitness pal as a food logging app and may not be aware of the

fact that there is a whole team of registered dietitians on staff, creating content,

designing programs and features for users, and even conducting research into things like nutrition literacy and the role of social media and

influencers in this whole nutrition conversation and that's what we're going to be talking about today.

Yes, I'm so excited to share more because I think you're right consumers are aware that my

fitness pal has been around actually since 2005 and so in that scope you know we have this

ability to reach a global population and we in fact are the number one global nutrition and food

tracking app but there's so much that goes on behind the

scenes to ensure the scientific credibility and accuracy of the information that we're sharing

with our My Fitness Pal members and the general public.

And there's a lot of work for us to do here, isn't there?

Last year, one of the projects that My Fitness Pal spearheaded

was a survey where you were quizzing the general population on their

nutrition IQ and before we get into what your survey results revealed I want to

give my listeners a chance to test their own

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