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Goals of Wisconsin Dietetic Association:

Membership Statistics:
WDA has approximately 1,550 members.  WDA consists of  3 dietetic regions (Milwaukee, Madison, and Northern). Additional continuing education opportunities and networking are available through the Milwaukee and Madison district organizations.

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About the Wisconsin Dietetic Association

The Wisconsin Dietetic Association is the link to nutrition and health in Wisconsin. This professional organization promotes registered dietitians and dietetic technicians as the nutrition experts through membership, continuing education, and legislative activities.

Members specialize in a variety of nutrition services including: 

Weight Loss

  • Recommendations for losing weight safely
  • Diet pills and ins and outs of popular diets like weight watchers, atkins diet, zone diet, cabbage soup diet, low carbohydrate diet and others

Healthy Lifestyle Promotion

  • Optimum health, wellness, chronic disease management, soy nutrition, food guide pyramid, vegetarian diets

Women's Health

  • Osteoporosis treatment and prevention, healthy menopause

Diabetes

  • Development of diabetic diet meal plans, diabetes diets and diabetes recipes
  • Carbohydrate (carb) counting

Sports Nutrition

  • Training diets and menus

Heart Disease

  • Development of low cholesterol diet menus, low fat recipes and low cholesterol diets

Cancer Nutrition

  • Cancer diet, cancer prevention, eating tips for cancer treatment

Complementary Medicine

  • Complementary therapies that include vitamin and mineral supplementation, botanicals and functional foods as well as mind/body approaches

Critical Care

  • Specialized nutrition support and critical care nutrition