“New-Age” Fruit of the Month
Gone are the days of “fruit-of-the-month” baskets. If you want to gift someone with year-round produce, invest in a community-supported agriculture (CSA) share. Your gift will do more than please the...
View ArticleWhat Will You Do to Celebrate Food Day?
Food Day is about bringing us together to begin a genuine and all-inclusive conversation about the way we produce, consume and think about food in this country. Food encompasses a wide array of issues...
View ArticleHappy National Food Day 2012!
It’s Food Day! Celebrate by eating to protect the planet. I will be spending the day at the UA Food Day Fair. If you are in Tucson, come on down between 10-2 pm on the UA Mall, just outside the Student...
View ArticleDo All Dietians Believe Coca-Cola?
Seriously? No. No, not all Registered Dietitians willingly swallow the heavy sponsorships that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, accepts. Michele Simon published an excellent report detailing the...
View ArticleHow Food Politics Led to Nourishing Results
Please listen to my recent interview on Mrs. Greens World with Marion Nestle. When I was in graduate school I read Marion Nestle’s book, Food Politics. Reading this book was a pivotal turning point in...
View ArticleDon’t lose weight to get healthy.
Another paper was published this week discussing the limitations to using body weight as a single indicator of health. The evidence continues to accumulate calling into question long-held beliefs about...
View ArticleGet healthy to lose weight.
We know from the diet research published over the past ten years, that the only diet that works is the one you stick with. Unfortunately no research study has been able to put a group of people on one...
View ArticleOctober Challenge: Get Your Head In The Game
I often hear, “I know what to do, but I don’t do it”. The assumption is made that it is lack of motivation and self-discipline that prevents behavior change. I’d like to challenge this assumption. What...
View ArticleProtein & Plant-Based Diets
Here’s a question from Ask the Nutritionist on the website: “I am trying to make sense of anti-inflammatory vegetables at the same time as reducing fish and chicken to a minimum so it seems that my ten...
View ArticleThe Power of A Single Supplement
True or false? Taking a single supplement for 12 weeks has been demonstrated to reduce incidence of psychosis in high-risk individuals for one year. True. In a 12-week double-blind, placebo-controlled...
View ArticleADHD and Pesticides
It’s interesting to think about how pesticides work to fend off pests. These chemicals “work” by attacking the nervous systems of bugs and other pests. How do these neurotoxins affect our nervous...
View ArticleFrom Fork to Tummy to Brain
So often we hear about the foods we shouldn’t be eating, and while it is true many foods have attributes that don’t promote health, there are many foods that promote proper function. Our brains require...
View ArticleSpread the Love Challenge
November and December are best known for holidays, stress, friends, family…and eating. This year, your challenge is to spread the good word of clean eating, exercising, controlling stress and most...
View ArticleBest Reusable Water Bottle
Did you know that dehydration is associated with mood swings, fatigue and higher levels of hunger? Often I hear from clients and patients that they didn’t realize how poorly they felt until they began...
View ArticleA Good Book
Happy Cyber Monday! A book is a wonderful gift that allows your friends and family to learn more about food, nutrition, the food industry, the environment and health. This year, as you Spread the Love,...
View ArticleLiving Detoxified
We take our livers for granted. Our liver is constantly working to protect us against chemicals, pesticides, plastics, food additives, and all other toxins we are exposed to. Over time, an overwhelmed...
View ArticleFebruary 2014 Challenge: Foolproof Your Ticker
What better way to say, “I love you” than to take good care of your heart? February is traditionally heart-health month, and for good reason, since the leading cause of death in the US is heart disease...
View ArticleMarch 2014 Challenge: Focus, and set ONE goal.
We are bombarded by nutrition information. It’s all around us. Nutritional science is confusing and contradictory. The grocery store is a sea of food marketing and advertising. It’s no wonder that the...
View ArticleAre You Eating Plastic?
Chances are that you are eating some amount of plastic in the canned foods that you eat. You are also drinking a little plastic from hard plastic beverage containers. The most common plastic compound...
View ArticleCeliac Disease Awareness Month 2014
Celiac disease is a genetic, inflammatory, systemic autoimmune disease. I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2010 after searching for 8 years for an answer to low bone density and some mild...
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