The Media and Nutrition/Health Stories

Posted on December 10, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition, healthy lifestyle | 2 Comments

“Sensational headlines don’t always tell the whole story. Look at how nutrition news fits into the bigger scientific picture.”
It seems all the time the media reports on stories that have crazy headlines that contradict current health recommendations. They over-hype these types of stories without looking at the bigger picture.
The Harvard School of Public Health can [...]

Holiday Eating

Posted on December 8, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition | 2 Comments

“People who skip meals to save up calories tend to overeat everything in sight once they get there. Eating sensibly throughout the day will take the edge off the appetite and empower a bit of restraint.”
– Katherine Tallmadge, MA, RD
Holiday parties are in full swing this time of year. Do you have any sort of [...]

More Fruits and Veggies?

Posted on December 6, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition, Vegetables | 2 Comments

Interesting graph showing fruit and vegetable intake. Today may be a good day for all of us to try and regularly get more.

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Source: State of the Plate: 2010 Study on America’s Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables

Fast Food and Kids: Some Numbers

Posted on November 9, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition, food | 2 Comments

$4.2 billion: Dollars spent on fast food advertising in 2009.
40%: Percent of pre-school aged kids who ask parents to go to McDonalds on a weekly basis.
84%: Percent of parents who say they’ve taken their kids to get fast food at least once in the past week.
12: Number of kid’s meals (of the 3,000 possible combinations) [...]

Healthy Monday – Cook with Your Kids

Posted on November 8, 2010 - Filed Under Healthy Monday, Nutrition | 2 Comments

Each Monday, a simple health tip will be posted as part of Healthy Monday. Healthy Monday is a public health initiative founded in 2005 in association with Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, and Columbia Univerisity.
Their mission includes ending “chronic preventable disease in the U.S. by offering people and organizations a weekly prompt to start and sustain [...]

Weekend Eating

Posted on November 5, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition, healthy lifestyle | 3 Comments

Most people tend to eat more on the weekends. I know I usually do. Here’s an excerpt from a study that investigated:
“These overall increases in dietary intake are significant for the overall sample and are largest for the 19- to 50-year-old age group; among this age group, the weekend day increase (vs. weekday) is 115 [...]

Spice it Up

Posted on November 3, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition, healthy lifestyle | 2 Comments

Some ways to get more flavor in your foods without adding salt:

Source: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol With Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes

Eat Breakfast

Posted on October 18, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition | 5 Comments

In general, kids and teens who eat breakfast have more energy, do better in school, and eat healthier throughout the day. Without breakfast, people can get irritable, restless, and tired. So make time for breakfast — for you and your kids!
– Kid’s Health
Seems pretty basic, but a lot of people don’t eat a regular breakfast, [...]

Sports Drinks

Posted on September 28, 2010 - Filed Under Nutrition | 1 Comment

Are you a fan of sports drinks?
“Sports drinks have been successfully marketed as beverages consistent with a healthy lifestyle, which has set them apart from sodas.”
“Consuming large amounts of flavored and sports beverages could undo the effects of all that exercise. Recognizing these misperceptions is important to obesity prevention efforts.”
– Nalini Ranjit, Ph.D., assistant professor [...]