
Embrace Eggs: New Cholesterol Recommendations
Last month, the Washington Post broke the news that the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee planned to propose a BIG change to the 2015...

My Stance On GMOs
The annual "What's Trending in Nutrition" survey from Today's Dietitianpredicts 2015 will be a year GMO-free matters: Fellow dietitians...
To My Dad and the Boston Marathon
People always ask me: “What made you want to be a dietitian, Did you ever have a weight problem?” I became a dietitian so that I could...

What Your Physician May Not Have Told You About Cholesterol
New research has doctors reevaluating how they measure and use cholesterol to determine the risk of cardiovascular disease. People think...

Semantics Part 2: Is "Binge Viewing" another way of saying Couch Potato?
By Definition, Binge-watching, also called binge-viewing or marathon-viewing, is the practice of watching television for longer time...

Brown Bag It: How to Pack a Healthy School Lunch
In 2016, the USDA unveiled healthier nutrition standards for school meals—after not making changes for more than 15 years. As a...

5 Must-Haves for a Healthy Pantry
You’ve heard the weight-loss wisdom: Set yourself up for success by keeping junk food out of the house. That’s great advice, but it...

Non Dairy Is Trending
Dairy Free Is Trending. Here Is Why. It is not just consumers motivated by animal rights (vegans) on the non dairy bandwagon. People...

Food Is Not Miraculous or Super, Food Is Food.
There Is No Such Thing As “Miracle Foods”. Cancer is a disease that invokes fear, so it is not surprising that the public is eager to...

If You Have a Body And You Go To the Beach,Then You Have a Beach Body!
It’s getting close to summer time, and you might have started working on your “beach body.” But what is a beach body, really? In...