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Invest Time in More Family Meals

September is Family Meals Month! The benefits of sharing a meal with people is worth the time investment. Sitting at the table with people you love helps deepen relationships which is good for your mental health and well-being. Family meals offer opportunities to teach civility, respectful interactions and polite discourse. Research shows family meals are [...]

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Back to School with Family Meals from Your Freezer

It's Family Meals Month. This back-to-school season I challenge you to join the family meals movement and enjoy more meals together. Research has shown that coming together at meal time helps strengthens relationships (try these placemats to get conversations started). Enjoying a family meal is about more than just eating together. Coming together for meals [...]

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New Blood Pressure Guidelines: What to Know

When I began my career I worked in clinical inpatient and outpatient nutrition. For many years, "High blood pressure" was anything over 140/90. However since 2017 it's been defined as any reading that's over 130/80 (reflected in the 2nd edition of DASH Diet For Dummies®). Back in the 1990s I used to teach "Lifestyle Management" [...]

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The Pyramid I’ll Die On – Nutrition is Nuanced

There have been times during my career that I've thought: "Does diet even matter at all?" It's difficult to sort through research and analyze which methodologies are better than others, who is biased, and what is actually meaningful. I'm still here, practicing the art of communicating nutrition science, with a passion for food. So I [...]

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The Dirty Dozen List is a Myth

Each year, a “Dirty Dozen” list of fruits and vegetables is published by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The purpose of the list is to encourage consumers to buy only organic versions of the fruits and veggies on the list. It’s important to understand the methodology behind these recommendations, what these residues may actually mean [...]

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Wellness 2.0

In a previous post I commented on the growth of the wellness industry over the past 20 years. I've watched this movement unfold and gain speed thanks to well-organized food activists, functional and alternative medicine doctors, chiropractors, and "holistic healers". Over time, they have slowly molded public perception of food, nutrition, and medicine. They are [...]

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The Complexity of the Grift

"Make America Healthy Again". Sounds great. What does this really mean? There's no question that there are a lot of sick people in the United States. Obesity has definitely grown over the past few decades, as has a sedentary lifestyle. The US spends the most money on healthcare, yet has a lower life expectancy than [...]

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Pasta Night…But Balanced

As an Italian American, it distresses me when I see people shun pasta, bread, or pizza, because...carbs. Pasta is an important part of my cultural food-ways, and I know it's also loved by millions of people both in the US and around the world. It's not the enemy. Sure, if you have Celiac disease or [...]

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Food is Chemistry: Food Dyes and Risk

As I scroll through the news or social media posts, I see a lot of public fear over "unnatural" or "synthetic" ingredients. Did you know that the colors found in nature are made up of chemicals? Often times the very chemicals that produce the color also possess the health benefits. They are part of a [...]

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Food Connections at the Table

March is National Nutrition Month®! This year's theme is "Food Connects Us." While I try to offer you food and nutrition tips all year, March is a time when registered dietitians really like to reinforce the importance of a healthy diet and lifestyle. There are many aspects about health and nutrition that are more nuanced [...]

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