BY A STAFF REPORTER
BOSTON, MA-The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics chapter of Asian Indians in Nutrition and Dietetics recognized Geeta Sikand, a registered dietitian nutritionist on October 17,with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her accomplishments as a nutrition researcher, an author and for providing volunteer public service...
BOSTON, MA-The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics chapter of Asian Indians in Nutrition and Dietetics recognized Geeta Sikand, a registered dietitian nutritionist on October 17,with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her accomplishments as a nutrition researcher, an author and for providing volunteer public service...
in nutrition. The award was presented at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Sikand is the Director of Nutrition at University of California,Irvine Preventive Cardiology Program and an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in Cardiology at the UCI, Irvine School of Medicine. Sikand is a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Fellow of the National Lipid Association. Sikand’s award winning research at UCI published in 1998 and 2000 in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association demonstrated that bad cholesterol could be lowered significantly with medical nutrition therapy and one dollar spent on medical nutrition therapy saves four health care dollars in medication and monitoring costs.