30 Days to Help Yourself: A Dietitian, Chef, and Trainer Team Up

Everyone wants to know the best way to lose weight. In a word, it’s support. Support is so important because it fuels your mindset and determination to accomplish any goal. Support comes from family, friends, and if you really want to be successful health and wellness professionals. Not only can dietitians, trainers, and “healthy eating” [...]

You Can Count on Nutrition At Your Fingertips for Food Advice

Everybody eats. But not everybody is a food and nutrition expert. Good advice can sometimes be as hard to find as an H1N1 vaccine! But don’t fear, registered dietitian and author Elisa Zied has you covered in her latest book “Nutrition At Your Fingertips” (NAYF). I scored an interview with the MSNBC contributor. Read on [...]

Biggest Loser Diet at Home

One of the things I think makes this show unique is that more people watch it for inspiration rather than entertainment. As a nutrition and fitness expert who tunes in religiously, I get tons of questions about my impressions of the show. My favorite is the epiphanies and “a-ha” moments people experience on camera. You [...]

Be Social Without Blowing Your Diet

Whether it’s a late summer BBQ, wedding, or other life milestone, you’re bound to have your calendar booked with a celebration sometime soon. For people working hard to lose weight, it can be stressful and even cause anxiety that can make you want to skip the event altogether. If this sounds like you, you should [...]

Food Insight: A Facelift and Birth Announcement

From the title of this post, you would think this blog is about surgeries and new babies. But what I’m actually talking about is a great resource for health experts and people who are looking for science based information on those “foggy” food and nutrition topics. I’ve been helping International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation [...]

Creating a 3 Course 700-Calorie Meal Can Be Hell

I was so excited to see the “challenge” on Hell’s Kitchen. The teams were charged with creating the healthiest and best tasting 700-calorie meal (that’s appetizer, entree and dessert). Wow. Not an easy task!
If you missed the episode, the ladies did a wonderful job making the most of fresh, healthy vegetables and fruits to keep [...]

Rebecca Scritchfield Joins Diets in Review

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 taste [...]

Healthy Eats: Starbucks New Salads and Smoothies

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 [...]

Starbucks Cleans Up Ingredients, Adds to Healthy Menu Options

Think your ideas don’t matter to a big company like Starbucks? Think again… This week Starbucks is launching a whole line of new foods all inspired by customer ideas submitted at My Starbucks Idea.
The bottom line. Starbucks customers want good nutrition – as evidenced by the fact their number one selling food is their oatmeal. [...]

On a Mission to Understand Local Foods Movement, An Interview with Chris Wharton

A couple weekends ago, I attended the ADA leadership institute in Dallas, TX. Despite heavy rains, I arrived on time for two of the three days of the event. I was so surprised (and happy) to run into a former fellow student of nutrition. We both served on the ADA Student Council Advisory Committee (as [...]