My insurance company sent an awesome newsletter that I think everyone will appreciate. One of the whole reasons why I started this blog was (well, grad school to be honest and…) to help my friends and family with info and advice. This was all while I was an “RD TO BE”. Now that I am [...]
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I first wrote about the Smart Choices labeling program in November 2008, after it was rolled out at the American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference. In a nutshell, it is the food industry’s stab at taking all the “front of package” labeling from individual companies (smart spot, sensible solutions, etc…) and giving it some [...]
Filed under: eating healthy, food industry, food labeling, food marketing and advertising, nutrition | Tagged: ADA, ASN, smart choices | 4 Comments »
I’m excited to announce that I am the nutrition blogger at Diets in Review. I post video and text blogs three times a week. Catch up with all my posts on my blogger archive page. Want to get to know me better – check out my author page. If you read my blogs, here’s a [...]
Filed under: ACSM, eating healthy, food, life | Tagged: dietitian blogger, diets in review, eating healthy, nutrition expert, weight loss | 3 Comments »
I love this video from the Science Based Medicine website. It shows how people who call themselves nutritionists without real training really have no idea what they are doing. I will definitely use it in presentations to drive home the point that registered dietitians (RDs) are the nutrition experts. Do you have a story about [...]
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How many women do you know who put themselves last? Probably a zillion. We can’t help it. We’re women. We nurture. But the reality is that we really can’t take care of others unless we take care of ourselves first. That’s a tough pill to swallow because we feel so guilty when we think about [...]
Filed under: adult health, eating healthy, exercise, nutrition | Tagged: exercise, nutrition, relationships, stress management, wellness | 16 Comments »
Last week, I posted about the healthy foods makeover Starbucks gave itself called “real food, simply delicious” (all natural ingredients, whole foods, and as few ingredients as possible). Since then I had the chocolate banana Vivanno smoothie with the espresso shot as a quick lunch. It was delicious. At only 300 calories it wasn’t enough [...]
Filed under: calories, diet, eating healthy, food, food industry, food marketing and advertising, fruits, health, nutrition, vegetables, weight loss | Tagged: healthy fast food, starbucks | 2 Comments »
