{"id":16526,"date":"2020-12-01T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16526"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:44:56","slug":"support-the-vegetarian-resource-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/01\/support-the-vegetarian-resource-group-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Support The Vegetarian Resource Group!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Due to the pandemic, many\nyoung people\u2019s lives were upended with lost jobs and canceled study abroad\nclasses. Thus we were honored with twenty-two virtual summer and fall\ninterns\/volunteers from high school through college and beyond, who still\nneeded their time to be useful.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one student said, \u201cI am\nwriting to express my deep gratitude to supporters of VRG, which allowed me to\nlive and function when the whole world seemed to pause. I had the opportunity\nto participate in VRG\u2019s summer internship program which gave me a way to escape\nand focus on things other than my collapsing world. During the internship, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did the only thing I always\nloved doing, which is express with words, on a topic (vegan) that has truly\nchanged my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD nutrition student Kavitha,\nbased on a question sent to us from a registered dietitian, added information\nabout potassium and phosphorus to our plant-based milk chart. A Johns Hopkins\nstudent worked on research around links between potential pandemics and\nconcentrated animal feeding operations. A Masters nutrition student from Mexico\nis doing her internship with VRG looking at vegan calcium sources and Latinos.\nA high school student who hopes to do pre-med studies has interviewed vegan\ndoctors and dietitians for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rising college freshman\nfrom Alaska let our readers know \u201cthat not\neveryone in Anchorage\nis hunting moose and fishing for salmon to stay alive through the winters.\u201d She\nreviewed her favorite restaurant where she can find vegan options. And two of\nour interns from Cornell and University\n of Delaware assisted\nMarcy Schveibinz with a cooking class she is teaching to\nformerly homeless men who are in a residential living program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much to Marcy,\nVRG Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, Vegetarian\nJournal<\/em> Editor Rissa Miller, and VRG researcher Jeanne Yacoubou who helped\nus work with all these individuals, so that they could continue to learn and\ncontribute even with the chaos in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of a tumultuous\n2020, we continue to be very busy. Reed Mangels, PhD, RD spoke virtually about\nvegan\/vegetarian children at the Maryland Academy of\nNutrition and Dietetics Annual Meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She will also be conducting a 2-hour webinar in December on vegetarian diets for the NY state WIC Women, Infants, and Children agencies (RDs, nutrition assistants, and peer counselors). And volunteer Elsa Spencer, PhD is doing a virtual vegan nutrition session for students at Northern Virginia Community College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2020 Dietary Guidelines\nAdvisory Committee has completed their review of the evidence on nutrition and\nhealth. The final report reflects the Advisory Committee\u2019s full examination of\nthe evidence using three rigorous approaches: data analysis, systematic\nreviews, and food pattern modeling. The Scientific Report also includes advice\nto the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services\nto consider in the development of the next edition of the Dietary\nGuidelines for Americans. <\/em>Reed and The Vegetarian Resource Group <\/em>submitted comments on the\nAdvisory Committee report to the U.S.D.A. and H.H.S. to consider for developing\nthe 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for\nAmericans<\/em>.\n<\/em>This document influences policies and food purchasing decisions throughout\nthe country for years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our national polls on the number of vegetarians and vegans continues to be helpful to businesses, students, academics, and health professionals. For our 2020 poll, we even received a note from a rheumatologist doctor in Brazil who wanted to cite the polls as she was earning her masters in Osteoporosis and looking at vegan diets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to dietitians Reed, Eric, Cathy, Chef Nancy, and Julie, as well as Elsa for volunteering at our Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics virtual VRG booth. It was not the same as physically\ninteracting with people, but it was still impactful. We had 1,268 visitors come\nby the booth. The conference said they had 13,600 registered attendees from 66\ncountries.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comments in our dietetic\nconference online chat varied from \u201cI relied on so many of the PDFs and\nresources available on the website when I was curating resources for cooking\nclasses that I was developing a couple years ago\u201d to \u201cHi I just wanted to share\nI\u2019ve been a fan for years, especially for using your vegan iron sources handout.\u201d Another attendee asked about access to our\n\u201cIngredients Are They Vegan,\u201d Vegetarian Nutrition, and patient education\nhandouts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much to our supporters in these tough times who enable us to assist young people, do research, help consumers, and provide information to health professionals. May next year be better than 2020 for those that are struggling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please donate at vrg.org\/donate<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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