How does your food make you feel?
Probably the biggest bit of nutrition-related news in the last week or two has been
Probably the biggest bit of nutrition-related news in the last week or two has been
You know how chicken soup always seems to hit the spot when you're sick? (Unless
What happens when the food industry invites an obesity doctor to speak, then says, "Um...nevermind."
Have you heard about "The Real Bears"? It's a little cartoon video put together by
I've written about nutrition and cancer prevention, but it's been a while. It's a subject
I was at a loss for what to write about today (and I didn't think
I don't keep up with TED talks as much as I would like, so I
The workplace food environment can be perilous, especially as we move into the fall-winter "food holidays." It starts with Halloween, when everyone likes to bring their extra candy to work to "get it out of the house." That rolls right on to the pre-Christmas free-for-all (which doesn't even wait for Thanksgiving to be over, anymore).
For today's post I am pleased to refer you to a newly published podcast I
I absorbed a number of great educational sessions at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics'
For today's post I'd like to direct you to my guest post on trans fats
If you hear the term "obesity epidemic" enough times (which most of us have) you
There are few things I love more than a really good salad. Since I can't
Ah, that is the question. Unfortunately, there is no nice-and-easy answer. I wish I could
So, what is fat, exactly? Fat as we know it in our food and in
For real! This picture is the back of the famous Paramount Theater (and convention hall)
Once upon a time, Jeff and I lived in New Jersey (for two years), and
Despite inhabiting the West Coast (California, Oregon and now Washington) for 93 percent of my
I love eggs, and not just because my three backyard hens obligingly provide them for
Do you can? We love to can...or should I say Jeff loves to can, and
I'm chastened to say that I would not have known that yesterday was Julia Child's
Do your weekend plans involve shopping at a farmers market? No? Well you're about the
Some of the work I've been doing during my three-week community dietetics practice experience rotation
I've never officially observed Meatless Monday. And it's not because I'm so enamored with meat.
I had a question from a reader about Nancy's Yogurt. I had mentioned that people should look for the "Live and Active Cultures" seal on their yogurt to make sure that the probiotic bacteria in the yogurt have not been killed by heat processing (if they aren't alive when you eat them, they have no chance of improving your intestinal bacteria population).
A reader asked me how probiotics and fermented foods make it through the stomach digestive acids. It's an excellent question. I mean, our stomach and small intestine digest our food, why wouldn't they digest any passing bacteria? It's true, our digestive tract is a harsh environment, full of acids and digestive enzymes, but some bacteria are up to the task.
I'm taking a little blogging break today, so I thought I'd share this video that
I spent a few hours yesterday tasting and testing my way through The Bite of
Several months ago, I let my Full Circle produce delivery subscription lapse. As convenient as
...and came home with happy tastebuds! Jeff and I did a loooong day trip to
Greetings and salutations. I'm in the middle of a big editing project and my house
It's not especially hot in Seattle, but after a long, cool spring and early summer
Since I try to eat seasonally as much as possible, there are certain foods and
I hope everyone (well, US readers, anyway) had a nice July 4 holiday. We celebrated
I eat a lot of lunches at my desk while working, or in the library
One area I think I want to focus on professionally once I'm a Registered Dietitian
I love a good pancake, and while there is something delightful about the traditional fluffy
I've mentioned here and there that my eating habits for the last nine months (the
For the last nine months, I've been so heavily invested in the nutrition side of
As I mentioned, I'm attending the annual BlogHer Food conference this weekend, which is so
Would you rather read this......or this?Now, I may have introduced some bias in this little
...otherwise known as a podcast and a video. First the podcast, a nice WNYC conversation
Great infographic from the CDC's Making Health Easier site! Do you suffer from "portion distortion"?
I'm finally getting around to sharing one of the two great new recipes I made
I mentioned yesterday that my weekend cooking plans got derailed a bit. Saturday afternoon, I
Greetings! I had intended to post a few recipes this weekend, but my cooking plans
Even though many of us cook and eat on the fly, at least some of
If I had to shop every week for everything I eat in that week, I
This is an update of an earlier post in which I tried to limit myself to selecting five cookbooks from my library that I thought would be good for newbie cooks. I didn’t quite hit the mark, as you can see. And I’m adding one more that I’ve recently acquired. What can I say, other than, “Hello, my name’s Carrie and I’m a cookbook addict.”
My "On Nutrition" column in yesterday's Seattle Times talked about the loss of fundamental cooking
You may well be aware that body mass index, or BMI, is an imperfect measure
Vitamins and minerals are important. Really important. There are the antioxidant vitamins (A, C, E
I have a pile of textbooks staring reproachfully at me, so I'm going to be
I don't often do "what I ate today" types of posts, but since yesterday's post
There are some stories I don't like to read. A story about a healthy, active,
We had our last lecture in Food Safety today, and it was a good one.
In yesterday's Nutrition & Metabolism class, our guest speaker was Laurie Mischley, ND, who received
So, I'm writing this post from the calm quiet of the Health Sciences Library, killing
It's bad enough to never have enough time to peruse all the wonderful cookbooks out
Have you seen NPR's new food blog, The Salt? I stumbled upon it yesterday because
I enjoy a lot of whole grains, but I get excited about farro. And I
This post is going to be quick. I've had a busy weekend, and a large
OK, so yesterday I told you that, for most people, dietary cholesterol isn’t a big
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Greetings. The rain may be gently falling as I write this, but we had a
Nigella Lawson has 4,000 cookbooks.What have I been doing with my time (and money)? I
Well, it's my birthday, too! Or it was, yesterday. I had the day off from
A few quick things before I head off to watch my beloved Oregon Ducks play
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then New Year's Day breakfast
I'm sitting in the school library, killing time until my epidemiology final. By epidemiology final,
Chilly temps+ Pho Cyclo= Balance in the universe!It's been soul-suckingly cold this week, but not rainy,
I'm working on a little project about food in film, so naturally I'm replaying in
This morning we made our annual trek to the country to pick up our quarter-share
Hello, old friends. It it clear that I need to adjust expectations (my own and
You know the whole "six degrees of separation" thing with actor Kevin Bacon (i.e., think
I've found a new (to me) food site: Food 52. It "had me at hello"
I try to not be judgmental about other people eating patterns, largely because there was
I know I ended yesterday's post with the suggestion to avoid food buffets, but the
Here's what I read on the bus yesterday on the way to "nutrition school." Excellent,
A food diary is an amazing tool for getting a clear look at what you're
Today I had the first of three grad school orientations, this one for the School
Hello, my precious...I was tortured, tortured I tell you, reading about Trader Joe's fig butter
I heard that the medical journal The Lancet published a large series of reports on
Uh, yeah...about that weeklong fall detox I was planning to do? Not gonna happen. All
I seriously don't know what I was thinking when I planned to cook a roast
I've talked about eating healthy and affordably before. Two keys to succeeding in this area
Happy Labor Day! I hope most of you are having a nice three-day weekend (I
When at all possible, I like to begin my copious daily vegetable intake at breakfast.
So about that calorie-cutting I mentioned. Every winter since my huge weight loss, I gain
When you're attempting to decide how much food you need to eat, but don't want
Sometimes I'm not sure what's worse, knowing nothing about nutrition or knowing a lot.On the
I've expressed my disdain for most restaurant food in the past, and mentioned that as
To celebrate learning that I don't have tuberculosis (not like I thought I had it...another
I didn't quite convey what a whiny baby I was about getting shots the other
Late post today. The tetanus-diptheria-pertussis booster shot I got yesterday made my left shoulder so
Choose any ten ways of eating (let's start with vegan, vegetarian, Mediterranean, low-carb, low-fat, high-protein,
I'm back! My lovely beach vacation is all but a memory, a slew of digital
I was so excited last week when I saw "the Ration," a food and health
I saw this old Hostess fruit pie commercial kicking around the blogosphere and thought it
Because you're hungry, you say? Well, what kind of hunger? That's the question that Chapter