Weight control

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello Again, Wishing you and yours a Happy and Healthy New Year!!! I am so sorry it has been a while since my last blog post.  Last year, was a very exciting year for me both professionally and personally!  I got to work with some amazing clients, was given the opportunity to teach more nutrition classes at […]

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Diet Ads From The Past

I found these old ads in the Chicago Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics history files.  It is amusing what kind of crazy diet products were sold in the past.  Check out how soap and flat worms used to be the current fad diets! Lar-Mar Reducing Soap Sanitized Tape Worms  

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Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right!

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March is National Nutrition Month®! National Nutrition Month® is an annual nutrition education campaign focused on helping consumers make informed food choices, while developing lifelong healthy eating and exercise behaviors.  This year’s theme is, “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right!”  What does this theme mean to you? Write a comment about what the theme “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right” means […]

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The Hunger and Overweight Paradox

Both food insecurity and being overweight are linked by numerous factors.  Within the United States alone, there is an estimated 16 million children that are food insecure.  Food insecurity means that a family or individual is faced with the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or is unable to acquire acceptable food in socially acceptable […]

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Five Things I Learned on the MS Westerdam!

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I just returned from a very relaxing seven day vacation with my boyfriend.  We went on an Eastern Caribbean cruise.  Our stops included:  Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Maarten, and Half Moon Cay.   We had a wonderful time!  However, I would not recommend the cruise line Holland America for anyone under the age of 65. It is hard to […]

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Small Size Me!

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Most Americans should already be familiar with the term “Super Size Me,” which refers to ginormous portion sizes and a movie.  Somehow, the U.S. got brainwashed into thinking bigger is better!  It is easy to see why when all you read on menus are these following terms:  combo, ultimate, kingsize, colossal, tub, jumbo, supersize, biggie, supreme, value meal, and all-you-can-eat.  […]

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