Melissa B
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Joined 7/10/2018
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Melissa B., M.S., R.D. earned both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Nutritional Sciences with Magna Cum Laude honors from Texas Woman's University. Melissa is a Texas-native and moved to Arizona to allow for the opportunity to expand her nutrition career and build her expertise in the profession of nutrition. Melissa specializes in the nutritional treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating, bariatric surgery, the gut microbiota, mindful eating, diabetes mellitus, metabolic disorders and the effects of chronic dieting.

Melissa has had the opportunity to be involved with local news channels in the promotion of healthy nutrition practices for the public through blogging and video. She has been featured on ABC-15 Sonoran Living, NBC-12 Arizona Midday KPNX and Channel 3 AZ KTVK. She has created hundreds of nutrition content pieces to provide accurate, sound and science-backed information to the public amongst anecdotal-backed dieting trends and the many nutritional myths that saturate our media.
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Specialties

Nutrition, Nutrition Research, Health & Wellness, Eating Disorders, Pre- & Post-Natal Nutrition, Bariatric Nutrition, Obesity (adult & childhood), Dieting

Interests

Cooking, Child Nutrition, Motivational writing

Education

Texas Woman's University

Melissa completed a Master's of Science in Nutrition from Texas Woman's University. Melissa was a graduate assistant for a few higher-level undergraduate nutrition courses during this time, including medical nutrition therapy and medical terminology. Melissa graduated with a 3.9 GPA.

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1 Projects Completed

Melissa Bloom has worked full-time in content development for a nutrition/app start-up company under a salaried title of, Registered Dietitian. Melissa wrote about (1) Weight Loss (2) Sports Nutrition (3) Nutritional Supplements. She directed this content and developed ideas on a weekly implementation basis, writing 2-4 articles and infographs per week. Melissa edited these articles and edited/coached co-workers on how to write about nutrition.

Melissa also wrote a one-time paid blog entry for At Home Athlete, LLC.

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1 Projects Completed

Melissa worked with business owner of At Home Athlete, LLC, Jerry Meizin, to develop a nutrition blog post about local restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio. Melissa discussed healthy options at these eateries and how to make nutritional choices while going out to eat. The purpose of this blog post was to market nutritional services to Jerry's local clients and it was successful.

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