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Powder Displacement in Enteral Formulas and Modular Products 582 380 Visual Veggies

Powder Displacement in Enteral Formulas and Modular Products

Powder Displacement Displacement is defined as the occupation by a submerged body of a volume which would otherwise be occupied by a fluid.  If that definition sounds confusing, try my simplified one:  When you get…

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Stark State College Poster Presentation 552 304 Visual Veggies

Stark State College Poster Presentation

Dietetic Technician Registration Exam Simulation Download the poster presentation of the DTR Exam Study Suite program used in a poster presentation by Stark State College

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Should You Consider the DTR Exam? 640 409 Visual Veggies

Should You Consider the DTR Exam?

Should You Consider the DTR Exam? You completed 4 years of undergraduate work in Nutrition and Dietetics, graduated with a well-respected GPA, but you did not get matched to a dietetic internship program.  Now what? …

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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication 640 426 Visual Veggies

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication What is communication?  Communication is defined as the transfer of a message from one entity to another.  In order for communication to occur, there must be a sender, a recipient, and…

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Dependent and Independent Variables 640 336 Visual Veggies

Dependent and Independent Variables

Dependent and Independent Variables A variable is something a researcher is trying to measure, and it can be just about anything, including objects, amounts of time, feelings, or events.  Researchers in the field of nutrition…

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Calculating Corrected Age of Premature Babies 640 360 Visual Veggies

Calculating Corrected Age of Premature Babies

Calculating Corrected Age of Premature Babies For a baby to be considered “full-term”, she needs to be in gestation for a total of 40 weeks.  Some sources state 39 weeks is full-term, but for simplicity…

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Free Water in Tube Feeding Formulas 640 353 Visual Veggies

Free Water in Tube Feeding Formulas

Enteral Feedings:  Free Water The term “free water” may also be seen as “feed water”, depending on the source.  Free water is the amount of liquid an enteral formula (aka tube feeding formula) is actual…

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RD Exam Study Suite and DTR Exam Study Suite Have Arrived! 1024 1024 Visual Veggies

RD Exam Study Suite and DTR Exam Study Suite Have Arrived!

Introducing RD Exam Study Suite & DTR Exam Study Suite! Over the past 3 months, we’ve taken the original Practice Exam software and completely revised, updated, improved, and bulked it up!  The RD Practice Exam…

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Understanding p-value in Statistics 600 300 Visual Veggies

Understanding p-value in Statistics

P-Value The p-value helps to determine the significance of the results and is the probability in which we are allowing the results of the data to be wrong.  The p-value will be a number between…

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Reactivating Download Links Has Ended 150 150 Visual Veggies

Reactivating Download Links Has Ended

Reactivating Download Links Has Ended As of January 1, 2016, we will no longer be reactivating the Windows and Mac download links for the RD/DTR Exam Study Suite, RD/DTR Hanging with Nutrition programs, and RD…

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Introducing VeggiEquations Calculations Apps for iOS 150 150 Visual Veggies

Introducing VeggiEquations Calculations Apps for iOS

Introducing VeggiEquations! Visual Veggies Software presents VeggiEquations, a new series of mobile apps assisting Registered Dietitians, Registered Dietetic Technicians, and students with the many calculations used in the field.  VeggiEquations is available for iPhone, iPad, and…

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Featured in the Food & Nutrition Magazine! 150 150 Visual Veggies

Featured in the Food & Nutrition Magazine!

Food & Nutrition Magazine Inspire Column Visual Veggies Software founder, Ryan Hartz is featured in the July/August 2015 edition of the Food & Nutrition Magazine! About a year ago, I altered the RD Practice Exam…

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Using Monthly Hours For Calculations 600 450 Visual Veggies

Using Monthly Hours For Calculations

How to Calculate FTE Using Monthly Hours: 160 vs 173.33 Explained Monthly hours are commonly used in workforce planning to determine the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs), estimate employee wages, and calculate labor costs. Choosing…

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Nonprotein Calorie to Nitrogen Ratio 600 300 Visual Veggies

Nonprotein Calorie to Nitrogen Ratio

What Are Nonprotein Calories? As you know, calories come from carbohydrates, protein, and fat.  One gram of carbohydrates yields 4 calories; the same for one gram of protein.  And one gram of fat yields 9 calories.…

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RD and DTR Practice Exams Are Mobile! 150 150 Visual Veggies

RD and DTR Practice Exams Are Mobile!

Would you, could you, study here or there? Would you like to study anywhere? Would you like to study in a house? Would you like to study with a mouse? You can study in a…

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