Six Great Reads on Food & Nutrition to Give This Holiday Season
Let me guess – some of you are pulling your hair out over what to get a friend or loved one for Christmas. You need IDEAS. How about a book? A gift of a book is good any time of year but getting a really good book around the holidays is especially nice. I personally…
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How to protect yourself from deadly strains of E. Coli
It’s happened once again – just before Thanksgiving 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent out a public warning to avoid eating romaine lettuce due to links of a multistate outbreak of a nasty strain of E. coli 0157:H7. Romaine lettuce was also to blame for an E. coli outbreak across the…
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Expert advice on avoiding holiday weight gain
The season of holidays is almost here beginning with Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and Valentine’s Day. Even the best intentions of staying on track with your healthy lifestyle habits can be derailed during this time. One of those healthy lifestyle habits at risk of derailing may include watching your waistline. How do you get…
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5 strategies to curb late-night snacking
You know the routine. You eat dinner, clean up the kitchen and then settle in for the evening. After a little while, you’re back in the kitchen, impulsively raiding the refrigerator searching for something to eat. But wait, you just ate not that long ago – why are you already seeking food only to take…
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What vitamin D deficiency means for a woman
Vitamin D is an important vitamin with powerful effects on several systems throughout the body. Obtaining sufficient vitamin D whether from food sources, the sun or supplements, is important for everyone. But women especially will want to take note making sure their vitamin D status is adequate. What is vitamin D? Vitamin D is a…
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Milk – a simple solution for minimizing chronic disease
Go ahead and pour yourself a glass of milk. Wait a minute – isn’t milk full of saturated fat increasing your risk of high blood cholesterol and heart disease? Not so fast. This favorite beverage of childhood appears to have the power to prevent chronic conditions such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes, stroke, cancer, obesity, and…
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8 So-called ‘Healthy Eating Rules’ you can ignore
Let me begin by saying I love my jobs and my profession. However, one of the most frustrating and annoying things about being a registered dietitian is listening to flat-out bad advice from people with little nutrition knowledge. Everyone believes because they eat food, they must be a nutrition guru. But when plain bad ‘healthy…
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8 affordable foods when money is tight
You may believe that eating healthy, nutritious foods is impossible on a tight budget. Actually, that is not true. While you may be tempted to resort to spending your food dollars on cheap not-as-nutritious items, this can backfire on your health. Over time, a steady diet of chips, soda, and highly processed convenience foods can…
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Why coconut oil is being called “pure poison”
As of lately, the fall from grace for coconut oil has felt more like a downward death spiral. Once dubbed, “a superfood,” and now referred to as, “pure poison,” coconut oil is being called “one of the worst foods you can eat.” In case you haven’t noticed, nutrition news is very fickle. It wasn’t that…
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Your proactive plan for reversing prediabetes
The numbers keep rising. Just three years ago, 79 million adults in the U.S. were estimated to have prediabetes. Today, that number has ballooned to a disturbing 84 million American adults with this condition. Even more disturbing is that out of that number, only 12% have been given their diagnosis. That means about 70 million…
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