Jason Fee, MS, RDN, LDN

Why I do this work

I found nutrition the hard way. I broke my ankle, and through the recovery and physical therapy, the only thing that reliably moved the needle was how I was eating. Not supplements, not shortcuts, the science. I wanted to understand the evidence behind it rather than hear people repeat claims they could not support. That frustration is what led me into dietetics.

Cancer had been part of my family's story long before that. My father was first diagnosed with lymphoma when I was a child. While I was building my foundation in college, he was re-diagnosed and went through a bone marrow transplant; about six years later he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had surgery. I watched him fight through every round of treatment. I also watched other patients in his cohort lose dangerous amounts of weight and struggle to eat, partly because nobody was helping them with the nutrition piece. That set the direction of my career.

Training and clinical background

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and a Master of Science in Kinesiology, Nutrition & Physical Activity from James Madison University, where my thesis applied artificial intelligence and machine learning to dietary assessment, before “AI in healthcare” was a common phrase. I had originally planned to run human trials on inflammatory pathways; COVID closed that research down and redirected me to the AI work.

I completed my clinical internship and residency at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU Health), rotating through inpatient, outpatient, food-service systems, administrative nutrition and legislative policy, with additional rotations in oncology, PhD-level research and sports nutrition.

I then joined AdventHealth, working as an inpatient and later outpatient oncology dietitian in the infusion center, sitting with patients during chemotherapy and helping them eat through nausea, fatigue and fear. During the same period I ran the Lifestyle Medicine program and served as an executive nutrition consultant through AdventHealth’s Executive Health Program, working with C-suite leaders from Disney, Universal, the Orlando Magic, Marriott, Hilton, NASCAR, McDonald’s and Publix, as well as U.S. government officials, foreign heads of state, and professional athletes. Those engagements were with individual executives through AdventHealth’s program; the companies themselves were not my clients.

Published work

In July 2026 I published a sole-author analysis of the U.S. clinical nutrition workforce in Health Affairs Forefront: The Slow Collapse Of The US’s Clinical Nutrition Workforce (16 July 2026). Forefront is Health Affairs’ commentary and analysis section; it is editorially reviewed rather than peer-reviewed, and I say so plainly because the distinction matters.

I have written three clinical nutrition guides, each because the resource I wanted to hand a patient did not exist:

• The GLP-1 Nutrition Survival Guide — written because patients were being prescribed these medications with almost no nutritional guidance, and losing muscle in the process.
• The Cancer Treatment Nutrition Guide — a comprehensive, evidence-based resource covering chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, surgery, symptom management, food safety and recovery. See all books.
• Feeding Someone Through Cancer Treatment — the companion for the person doing the cooking, in English and Spanish.

I also write regularly for patients and for the profession. The Insights library holds the clinical writing; Research holds the workforce and policy work.

Verify my credentials

You should not take a health professional’s word for their qualifications, including mine. All of these are public registries, and each takes under a minute:

• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) — verify through the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s public verification tool.
• Florida licence (LDN # ND 11697) — verify through the Florida Department of Health MQA licence search.
• NPI 1568220549 — verify through the NPI Registry.

If you are choosing between practitioners, the field guide to dietitian vs. nutritionist, health coach and functional practitioner explains what each title legally requires, and how to check anyone in about two minutes.

Standards & corrections

My whole position is that the numbers are checkable, which only means something if I hold myself to it in public. So:

• Every figure is priced at the time of writing, from the primary source. Fee schedules, wages, prevalence and funding totals drift, and secondary sources do not update. Where a number has a vintage, the vintage travels with it (“2026 Medicare rates,” “BLS OEWS May 2025”).
• Corrections are dated, labelled and appended, never silently swapped. When something is wrong I name what was wrong, where it came from, who caught it, and whether the underlying argument survives.
• Commercial relationships are disclosed in the body, not the footer. I earn a dispensary margin through Fullscript and use Practice Better for scheduling and records; neither changes what I recommend.
• Education is not medical advice. Nothing published here diagnoses or treats disease, and none of it creates a dietitian–client relationship.

Working with me

The practice is telehealth, licensed in Florida, and built around three lanes: GLP-1 and weight-loss nutrition, lifestyle medicine for metabolic health, and executive nutrition. Organizations work with me through corporate wellness partnerships, health-system consulting, and practice guides for clinics and med spas.

Vitae Arete provides nutrition education and counseling and does not diagnose, treat or manage disease, nor prescribe or manage medication. This page is general information about professional background and credentials, not individualized medical or nutrition advice, and does not create a dietitian–client relationship. See the full disclaimer.