Food for Thought
My Guilt-Free RD Philosophy (Hakuna Matata)
I’m the Guilt-Free RD. Because food shouldn’t make you feel bad. Since 1993, I’ve worked as a dietitian in many different settings (ranging from treatment to prevention) with many different types of patients and clients (including weight management, diabetes, eating disorders, heart health, maternal and child nutrition, and more). The common thread throughout my career,…
Read MoreFood, Farming, and…Faith
Wow, it seems like I can’t go anywhere these days without hearing something about how messed up the food industry is – even church. Yesterday’s sermon was one in a series on the environment based on a book by Bishop Sally Dyck called A Hopeful Earth. The sermon touched on food insecurity, modern farming and…
Read More“Food is Fashion!” Putting Your Best Fork Forward
PROLOGUE: Are you familiar with the NPD Group, Inc.? It’s a leading global market research company. It was founded in 1967 and provides market information and advisory services to help companies make better business decisions. Using actual sales data from retailers and distributors as well as consumer-reported purchasing behavior, NPD offers consumer panel and retail…
Read MoreFood with Integrity or Advertising with Duplicity?
If you’ve seen the Chipotle Scarecrow video (no, I’m not hyperlinking to it) that recently went viral, then you may agree with me that it is 3 minutes and 23 seconds of your life you’ll never get back….Okay, maybe that’s a bit too harsh. I mean, it’s not as bad as the Miley Cyrus VMA…
Read MoreFood for Thought – Setting the Stage
Now that this blog is almost one year old, I feel like I’m getting some “blog muscles”! I’ve received such positive feedback on my “They Blinded Me with Science” post and I really want to continue that conversation. We are all inundated with conflicting, cryptic and confusing nutrition information in the news every day. But…
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