As a dietitian, I strongly believe that you must exercise for optimal health, but in my experience it must be fun and challenging to stick to it in the long run. For me, I found fun and passion in running. Throughout the years, running has not only kept my body ...
As a family doctor, I constantly tell others that healthy eating is essential to good health. However, walking the talk was difficult with my busy schedule and my zero cooking skills. Cooking felt like a big task considering I grew up watching my mother spend hours ...
By Joel Exebio, PhD Candidate, dietetic intern, MBRS Fellow, vitamin D expert
The incidence of diabetes has increased dramatically over the last 30 years. It is widely known that Scandinavian countries such as Finland and Sweden have the highest rate of type 1 diabetes in the world due to the limited amount of sunlight ...
By: Nina Talamas, Dietetic Intern
As one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, coffee consumption is second only to water. In spite of this popularity, coffee and its effects on our health are hotly debated in the worlds of medicine and nutrition. Current research has been slowly answering the questions we have concerning ...
By Su-Nui Escobar, MS, RDN
There is no doubt; eating sugar can make us feel happy as the reward center in our brain lights up in a similar way as it does when consuming cocaine or opiates. Not surprisingly, we now have research showing the addictive properties of sugar. For example, a study conducted at ...
Remember your parents telling you how important it is to eat breakfast and how it is the "most important" meal of the day? Well, there's definitely some truth in that!
Breakfast has the power to jump-start your metabolism while decreasing cravings throughout the day. Breakfast is so important ...
By Heather Levine, RDN/LDN
Starting solid foods can be a fun, messy time for your baby as he or she explores new tastes, smells and textures. While this can be a very exciting time, it can be quite confusing and expensive for you! There are many options of how you can feed your child in ...
It is often said that “you are what you eat.” We can say that there is definitely some truth in this, as health and nutrition can be defined in numerous ways. Food has always been impactful to our health and contributes to how ...
I’m tired of being the only one that cooks.”
“Let’s just go out for dinner.”
“I don’t feel like cleaning the dishes, let’s just order take out.”
By: Rebecca Goodrich, MS, RDN
Sound familiar? We’ve all been there. We’ve all been too tired to cook up something for our families, let alone for ourselves. ...