Nutrition

I’ve got something a little different to share today.  I would like to happily direct you to my first ever guest post on another blog, Eating Rules.  The site belongs to Andrew Wilder who is the creator of and driving force behind October Unprocessed.  His idea is to gently nudge us towards healthier food choices by throwing down a

It’s good to be reminded that there’s stuff you don’t know.  As a nutrition professional who’s also a vegetarian, I like to think I’m up to date on the nutrient facts and figures important for a no-meat diet.  But, each week new research comes out and the prevailing wisdom shifts over time; sometimes that means you should change your shopping list

A student in my Basic Nutrition class recently noted that what he’d learned after 10 weeks of immersion into complex carbohydrates, fatty acids, energy balance, label reading, hypertension, minerals, metabolism and the like was that healthy eating was a full-time job.  Thinking about food is so deeply woven into my daily routine that it made

The kale has arrived.  We got our first bunch of the season in this week’s CSA box.  As I tried to decide how best to use it, I realized that Brassica oleracea is quite multipurpose.  Just think of the possibilities: kale can be oven-baked to make crispy chips, dressed to make a fabulous raw salad, turned