It’s almost Thanksgiving … Are you ready? I am! Did you know that you can count on many traditional foods to have noteworthy nutrient benefits? Thanksgiving feasts are calorie dense, for sure. You can count on some of your traditional thanksgiving recipes to be untouchable...
This week I was able to attend a unique tasting event at The Busy Bee Cafe organized by co-owner Chris Powers and a running & blogging buddy of mine, Win Bassett of ncbrewing.org. Thanks for the invite Win! The discussion with Jeremy Cowan and tasting...
Salmon is one of my favorite foods to eat and I think it is because it offers unique nutrients not found in other foods or fish. Vitamin D is one of those unique nutrients in salmon, since it is not found naturally in virtually any...
Last night, my third lecture topic for Obesity and Weight Management was Pediatric Overweight and Obesity. In case you couldn’t tell by former blog posts I have written, I get pretty fired up about this topic. Last year, I wrote a blog post about the...
Many thanks to Swanky Dietitian for tagging me on this “7 link ” post that has been circulating the blog-o-sphere. I have been reading blogger after blogger post about their “7 most… links” and loved it because it lets you as a reader get to know the blogger...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has developed an annual list of fruits and vegetables, frequently referred to as the “Dirty Dozen”. One of my avid readers, Three Cookies (who I am also an avid reader of), also posted about these recently here. The Dirty Dozen...
It is Friday and all good things come to those who wait, right?! Haha. Congratulations to my long-time blog friend Erica (and Josh) on their newest arrival, Kaylin. I was commenting on a post at Itzy’s Kitchen recently and saw that she had tried NuNaturals...
This is the third post in my Thrive in 30 campaign series for Vega & Sequel Naturals. After the Introductory Lesson, I wrote the second post that describes Lesson 1: Stress and Diet. The second video in the series can be accessed online: High Net-Gain...
I spent most of the work day yesterday judging the Peanut Presentations for the annual State Congress and learned so much from 9-18 year olds. I really did not expect a full morning of food demonstrations worthy of the food network! It was also filled...
I’m a huge fan of whole foods that are not processed, local, and organic if possible. I do not take vitamins and minerals because I feel we obtain the nutrients we need from the foods that we eat (or should eat!) in general. In the...
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