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Nutritionist
ARS-USDA
Kathy Hoy is a Nutritionist with the Food Surveys Research Group at the USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville, MD. She conducts, publishes and presents research using data from What We Eat In America, NHANES. Research interests include protein intake, dietary patterns, and factors associated with diet quality. Previously, she was nutrition research manager for the Fruits and Veggies – More Matters program at Produce for Better Health Foundation, and national coordinator for the Women's Intervention Nutrition Study, a multi-center study on fat intake and breast cancer recurrence. Dr. Hoy is a registered dietitian and member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and has been a Lead Evidence Analyst for the AND Evidence Analysis Library since 2006. She received her BS in Dietetics from the University of Dayton, and MEd in Applied Physiology and EdD in Nutrition from Teachers College, Columbia University.