Food As Medicine?

  Is food really medicine? Or is the art of the meal the true cure? Research consistently points to how different foods, nutrients, or patterns of food intake are associated with health outcomes. From low-fat to Mediterranean to plant-based eating patterns,...

Summer Bodies

Have you heard this term before? I bet you have. What does it mean to you? Does it mean your summer body is different than your winter body? Do you change bodies during the seasons? With the rising temps of the summer season, clothes change and our bodies are exposed...

Being Busy

Multitasking is when you try to do two thoughtful things at once. We do it SO often, we have started to trick ourselves we are REALLY good at it. And we can get more done. Research out of UCLA suggests that doing two thoughtful things at once is actually a sure- way...

Why is being kind to yourself so hard?

In a world where we are so connected, how come we are so disconnected from ourselves? Our play. Our ability to be kind to us. I watched the movie IF with my family this weekend and what a beautiful tribute to our human experience and how sometimes, through trials,...

Why is nutrition so confusing?

I have been a dietitian for almost 20 years and I think the ‘what’ of eating is going to continually evolve. I think sometimes in the nutrition world, there’s going to be fads, such as low sugar and low carb vs low fat, high protein, whatever the...