Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in clinical nutrition and dietetics from New York University. She is also a Certified Dietitian Nutritionist by the state of New York.
Toby is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition where she provides nutrition and food safety consulting services for various entities. She is a nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com where she writes for their Healthy Eating Blog and helps develop content and analyze the nutrition information for recipes. Toby is also the nutrition advisor for FitStudio (powered by Sears) where she oversees the nutrition content and contributes nutrition articles to the FitStudio community. She is on the Advisory committee for Activewear USA and has a regular column titled “Ask the Expert” in Today’s Dietitian Magazine. Other clients include The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly The American Dietetic Association), CookingChannel.com, Food Network Kitchens, CookingLight.com, and California Strawberry Commission.
Toby has recently started her own blog which has gained recognition by Shape Magazine and was voted the Top 100 Health Blogs in 2011 by Healthline.
She has extensive online experience and was the Director of Nutrition for DietTV.com, an online weight loss community. Since 1999, she has taught aspiring chefs about nutrition, food safety and restaurant management at The Art Institute of New York City. In 2004 she expanded her teaching to include the Art Institute Online. Toby has done private nutrition counseling in Bronx, New York focusing on childhood obesity. She is also an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Toby has written extensively and her publications list includes The All New Joy of Cooking (under Know Your Ingredients), where she helped compile information on over 300 foods. She was also a reviewer of the Jewish cultural food section of the web-based Nutrition Care Manual, which is compiled by The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to help guide practitioners and Cultural Food Practices also published by the ADA. Other writing samples can be viewed here.
She has appeared in a variety of media outlets including The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Woman’s World Magazine, Today’s Dietitian Magazine, CNN.com, Good Morning America Health, Good Day New York (WNYW Fox5 NY), Self Magazine, Us Weekly Magazine, WebMD, Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, The New York Daily News, Fitness Magazine, and several articles published on Scripps Howard Foundation Wire.
