Helping You Distinguish Fact from Myth so You Can Enjoy Life
Fast Facts About Seafood
Did you know that choosing seafood twice a week can help prevent heart disease? Seafood has many health benefits for children and adults. Seafood is quick to prepare, comes in a variety of forms (fresh, frozen, [...]
Lifestyle Behaviors that Stick: Start with these 3 simple hacks
There's no shortage of voices out there telling you what you should eat. However everyone has different taste preferences, health history, life situations and needs. Behaviors are often at the root of needed change. I've often [...]
Are You at Risk for High Blood Pressure?
As a dietitian who has studied heart diseases and diet for nearly 30 years, I thought it would be a good time to review some blood pressure basics (I'm also in the middle of editing a [...]
Veg Up Your Picnic Pasta Salad
Picnics are back. With our current need to stay physically distanced from one another, al fresco dining is a great option. Old fashioned picnics can be a fun way to bring a small group together in [...]
Where’s the Beef?
News of meat and other food shortages this week follows earlier news of the effect the SARS-CoV-2 virus has had on the food supply. Currently there is some disruption of workforce within the beef supply chain. [...]
Quick and Healthy Fruit Smoothies
What you drink can impact your blood pressure, so liquid calories do count. A couple of years ago I attended a food expo where liquid nutrition was definitely on trend. Some of the items were seemingly [...]
What’s a Pre-existing Condition?
The times we are living in have been eye opening in many ways. It's got me thinking about public health education. As someone who was trained in the 1980s, and worked in outpatient clinics, health education [...]
Food, Status, and Survival
We are experiencing a lot of disruption in the world right now. The food supply chain is mostly doing well, although recently there have been some disruptions and issues surrounding food waste. It's been interesting to [...]
