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National Nutrition Month 2013
March 1, 2013 marks the beginning of the 40th annual National Nutrition Month. Way back in 1973, the organization formerly known as the … Continue reading →
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Eat Right Your Way: Mexican Restaurant Make-over
My parents have begun their annual migration north from Florida, and on the way home from the train station we stopped at my favorite Mexican restaurant for dinner. Mexican food done “American” can be...
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Eat Right Your Way: Meatless Monday
Growing up in the 50′s and 60′s, Wednesday was “Prince spaghetti day” in every kitchen but ours; according to my memories we had meatloaf. In retrospect it is interesting to me the influence a simple...
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Eat Right Your Way, Every Day
This morning my local dietetic association had a booth at the St. Petersburg Saturday Market. Anything that you could have wanted was there. Very much like a food truck rally crashed into a farmer’s...
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What does Your Garden Grow?
Spring has sprung! At least in Florida. And what that means is we take advantage of a short growing season. Pretty soon it will get too hot for tomato plants and most vegetables are susceptible to...
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Livestrong, Live Smart!
Last night I had the opportunity to speak to a group of Cancer Survivors at the local YMCA. They were all at different places in their treatment: some were just beginning, some were well into the...
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Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 12, is Mother’s Day in the U.S. A day to recognize the trials and challenges our individual Moms’ experienced while raising her family, and to thank her for being the loving and important...
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Remember WHY we grill today
“Memorial Day is when we honor soldiers who have fallen in defense of our nation, those brave men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice to ensure freedom and prosperity for the United...
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Coo-coo for Coconut
As a licensed nutrition professional I am at the abject mercy of research. And like other areas of life, when the pendulum swings it makes me crazy! It is almost a full-time job staying on top of...
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Awww, nuts!
I am sitting in my parents’ dining room as I write this. Today is my Dad’s birthday and Sunday will be Father’s day. My Dad is at the kitchen table with a whole pile of nuts that he is eating because …...
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Don’t forget your SPF 30
Growing up in the northeast we didn’t really worry about getting a sunburn until the city pools opened for the season: right around July 4th. Living in Florida means every day is a potential “sunburn”...
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The Blue Zones
This week I am attending the Florida Dietetic Association annual symposium in Orlando. The opening session was titled the Blue Zones and the speaker was Dan Buettner, a New York Times best selling...
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More from the Conference: GMOs.
I hope that by now you have have arrived at the conclusion that I really enjoyed the keynote speaker, Dan Buettner. The Executive Director of the Florida Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics does a...
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5 Reasons for Your Teen to Eat Breakfast by Marisa Moore, MBA RDN
You’ve heard it since grade school: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But with a morning of competing priorities, snooze buttons and questionable appetites, it’s easy to skip breakfast....
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Pink Ribbons: Alcohol
You can’t swap out your genes or change your medical history, but the food and drink choices that you make today and tomorrow, over time, can affect your risk for breast cancer. And according to the...
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More From FNCE
Today I attended a session on the unique weight management concerns of breast cancer survivors. The speakers were were both RD researchers from Yale SCHOOL OF Public Health. Perfect topic for breast...
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Orange is the Color of Hunger Awareness
October has been a month of powerful messages. Besides breast cancer awareness, it has also been hunger awareness month but you probably didn’t notice. October 16 was “World Food Day” founded and...
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Hand-in-Hand
November is a dueling awareness month: Diabetes and Heart Disease. Well, maybe not so much dueling as jockeying for attention in competition with each other and the holiday looming up at the end of the...
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Holiday Cheer!
My Christmas season does not really get into full swing until I’ve had my first sip of eggnog. Which happened on Friday at our office party. Which got me thinking: different people celebrate with...
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Pay kids to eat produce?
What is it worth to you to have your child eat fruits and vegetables ? New federal rules to the school nutrition program have resulted in … Continue reading →
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