Health & Wellness

A Great Year for Nutrition

What a great time it is to be a registered dietitian!  As of March 13th, which was the 6th Annual Registered Dietitian Day, we can also add the word “Nutritionist” to our… Keep reading

An Egg a Day – Safe for Your Health

Does eating eggs increase your risk for heart disease or stroke? The answer from a large-scale analysis of decades’ worth of data is: No. “Higher consumption of eggs (up to one egg… Keep reading

Trying To Lose Weight? Lighten Up With Eggs!

When you think eggs, think satiety, and feeling satiated helps you achieve your weight loss goal.  As usual, I like to explore the meaning of words, and this month, satiety provokes my… Keep reading

Four Egg Myths Cracked by a Registered Dietitian

It’s great to look at myths about food, and learn truths! When I have to come up with a solution to a problem, I first deconstruct the question carefully.  Sometimes just thinking… Keep reading

Breakfast: Boost Your Second Meal Effect

Mom’s longstanding advice to eat breakfast just got a little more punch. It seems a healthy breakfast optimizes metabolism and health in even more ways than we knew. We’ve always recognized that… Keep reading

You Can’t Eggs-aggerate the Benefits of Eggs!

I love to think about words.  Changing how you interpret common words offers insight into a new way of thinking.  Exaggerate means to represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse… Keep reading

Five Convenient, Fast and Healthy Snack Ideas

In my last post I mentioned that snacks mean different things to different people.  Snacking is paramount in my house, as a working mother of four that needs to juggle multiple sporting… Keep reading

A Riddle and Five Healthy Reasons to Snack

Riddle:  What is truly designed by nature to be the perfect snack, is round, you can drop it and it may bounce…..and is packed with Protein? Answer:  You Got It!  A Hard… Keep reading