Recently, I cofounded a group called Dietitians for Professional Integrity. Since then, I’ve had a few dietitians tell me how sad they are that I’m part of this group, I guess because they think we are against dietitians. That could not be further from the truth. And I’ll be honest, I hate confrontation. Hate it. But there is a time to speak up, and that time is now. Below is…
This morning, before the sun came up, I headed out to the other side of town to pay a visit to our local CBS morning news. Because it’s National Read Your Nutrition Labels Day (yes, it’s a real thing), we talked about debunking some of the claims on the front of food packages. Low Sugar: Before reaching for that low sugar item, take a peek at the ingredient list. Are…
On Monday, I talked about four nutrition lessons from 2012. I hope they inspired your healthy eating journey enough that you are ready to make a few changes. But how to get started? Attune Foods has put together three one-week Clean Eating meal plans to get you off on the right foot. Each meal plan was created by a registered dietitian and comes with a grocery list and tips. And…
We had planned to meet my parents at our new Agritopia Community Garden plot bright and early Saturday morning to plant the shipment of heirloom seeds that arrived earlier in the week. The bright and early part of the plan went out the window when we had to keep the kids up extra late on Friday night. Thanks to my ever-increasing scatterbrain tendencies, I booked our babysitter for the wrong…
This post was originally published on Feed Our Families in January. Many of you have asked about how we do family dinners lately, so I thought you would want to read this. Let me know if you have any tips at the end! What’s the secret to a perfect family dinner? The truth is, I don’t know! But I do know a few things that help our family have…
How do you help your kids want to eat more vegetables? The simple answer is to offer them more vegetables. Sound too easy? I promise, it’s not. Research has actually shown that the kids who are offered more vegetables eat more vegetables. Makes sense, right? But sometimes it doesn’t seem so easy, especially when you hear moans and groans from kids at the dinner table. Here are five ways to…
You may have heard about a recent study linking processed diets to lower IQ in young children. The researchers found that kids who ate diets high in fat, sugar and processed foods before the age of 3 had a slightly lower IQ at age 8½, while children who ate a more “health-conscious” diet showed a slight increase in IQ. Even before this new study came out, I had been wanting…