Ultimate Grocery Guide: Budget-Friendly
If eating healthier and cooking at home is your goal this year, learning how to navigate the grocery store is your first order of business! As a budget grocery shopper myself, I’ve mastered the art...
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6 Budget and Calorie-Friendly Breakfast Options
When you’re on a budget, breakfast is one of the best meals to save some cash, because a lot of classic breakfast ingredients can be bought frozen or in bulk. If weight loss or maintenance is on...
6 Pantry Staples for Weight Loss Success
Despite our best intentions, making healthy food choices can be a struggle. Between meal planning, grocery shopping and preparing food, it’s easy to give up or get off track. But simple practices,...
5 Simple Ways to Manage Cravings, According to a RD
A sudden overwhelming desire for chocolate or a bag of chips — cravings can pop up out of nowhere and be detrimental to weight loss. However, there are both physiological and psychological reasons...
19 Nutrition Buzzwords Explained
With a plethora of buzzwords popping up these days, you might be caught in a web of words that’s overwhelming. Though there's no one definition of clean, healthy, or natural when it comes to foods,...
The Truth About Corn
Once upon a time, nothing seemed more wholesome than fresh, sweet summer corn. Delicious, affordable and ubiquitous, it’s a crowd-pleaser that’s easy to prepare. Then came the low-carb...
Is Stevia Safe?
Pick up any health magazine, and you’ll likely see an article about sugar in one form or another. From glucose and evaporated cane juice to pure maple syrup and honey, good ol’ added sugar goes...
All About Alternatives: Meat
We are not lacking for meat substitutes these days, especially with the growing popularity of a plant-based (or “plant-forward,” as I like to call it) diet. The health benefits of eating more...
4 Signs You Need to Add Carbs Back Into Your Diet
It’s almost easy (in theory, anyway) to cut carbs out of your diet. After all, grocery store shelves are loaded with low-carb or keto substitutes of some of your favorite foods. If you feel great...
8 Food Tracking Strategies to Try
Logging your calories and macros is a great way to stay on top of what you’re eating, and it’s one of the best ways to lose weight. But there’s actually a lot more you can learn about your...
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An RD’s Favorite Gut-Friendly Foods and Beverages
Giving yourself a gut check may be one of the best things you can do for your overall health. Approximately 70% of our immune system is located in the gut. When the gut is healthy, it helps the...
Why Eating Avocados May Help You Live Longer
Avocados are not Instagram-famous for nothing. This bumpy on the outside, creamy on the inside fruit is chock full of good-for-you nutrients. Avocados provide 11% of the daily value for fiber and...
The Truth About Greek Yogurt
You, me and everyone with a spoon have been privy to the thick yogurt revolution of recent years for its high-protein, cool and creamy convenience. Most of us agree there are many reasons to love...
What to Know Before Trying the Flexitarian Diet
While few of us are full-blown vegans or vegetarians, more than 1 in 3 people identify as “flexitarian,” according to a recent report from market research firm Packaged Facts. “As the name...
Is Low Blood Sugar Disrupting Your Sleep?
Have you ever woken up in the middle-of-the-night and aren’t sure why? Or felt really restless at night and spent your time tossing and turning? The culprit may actually be low blood sugar. How...
What to Know Before You Try Intermittent Fasting
There’s more than one way to eat. Many people subscribe to the three-meals-per-day schedule, but food scarcity, cultural and religious norms, and personal preferences result in various eating...
8 Reasons to Food Track in MyFitnessPal That Aren’t Weight Loss
Lots of people associate food logging with weight loss. It makes sense because keeping track of what you eat is one of the most effective ways to achieve the calorie deficit you need to lose...
The Truth About Rice Cakes
During the low-fat, high carbohydrate craze of the late 1980’s and 1990’s, rice cakes quickly became one of the ultimate diet foods. So we bought them in bulk thinking that, if we swapped our...
9 Foods to Avoid Before a Workout
What to eat before working out is an important consideration for many active folks, but what not to eat is just as key for an awesome exercise sesh. Exercise requires a large volume of blood to be...
10 MyFitnessPal Tips to Kick Off Your New Year’s Resolutions
Another year, another chance to improve your health. Making lasting change isn’t easy, which is why so many people fall off their New Year’s resolutions by February. But with some guidance and a...
8 Mental Tricks for Getting “Back on Track”
Getting back to eating healthy — whatever that means to you — can be tricky after time off. But whether you took a break from certain habits over the holiday season or you’re simply looking to...
Is Plant-Based Dairy Better for You Than the Real Deal?
Head over to the dairy case these days and you may notice that there are just as many plant-based yogurts, cheeses, milks, creamers and butters as there are the traditional cow’s milk varieties....
5 RD-Approved Foods to Relieve Constipation
Health and wellness require a multi-pronged approach that addresses your body and mind. As doctors and researchers learn more about health, they’ve discovered the role the gut plays in overall...
Ultimate Grocery Guide: Plant-Based Diet
I’ve been a plant-based eater for most of my life. While there’s no official definition for the term plant-based, the concept has grown to mean something different to everyone. For me, it means...
All About Alternatives: Nut Butter
There was once a time when the term “nut butter” was not in the lexicon, because there was pretty much just peanut butter. What a world that was! Now, with the increasing prevalence of peanut and...
Dietitian Tips for Navigating the Holiday Table
Holidays can be challenging for many reasons — the stress, family dynamics, travel and even the food. Hear me out — holiday food is delicious and special. But, if I had a nickel for every client...
Are Natural Wines Healthier or a Marketing Gimmick?
Organic. Artisanal. Handmade. There are countless terms applied to food and beverages, some of which have clear meanings while others are more nebulous. Add “natural” to the list. This term has...
4 Types of Food Pushers During the Holidays — and How to Respond
During the holiday season, everyone wants to eat, drink and be merry. But if you’re watching your weight or trying to slim down, it’s OK to skip seconds or dessert once you’ve had your...
A Love Letter to Broccoli: Where Is the Respect?
I didn’t forget about the vegetable that made me the man I am today. Get that acai smoothie out of my face. I don’t want to hear about how you put avocado on everything. Or how...
RIP, Kale: An Obituary to a Fad
Kale died a peaceful death last night, in the early winter months of 2016. A beloved cousin of the Cruciferous family, its legacy joins the likes of renowned child favorites cabbage, broccoli and...