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"Effective messages are created with and for an audience." Collaborate with your audience from assessing needs through evaluating outcomes.

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The team of authors, reviewers, editors, and designers completed four years of work and now Communicating Nutrition is a published book!!

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Teamwork accomplishes what solo effort cannot. It brings a greater depth and breadth to communication.