Eating like a dietitian

Stopped at Kroger today on my way home from work. My shopping bag was filled with: Clementines – on sale, I hope this was a good batch! Broccoli – also on sale. my garden’s broccoli have gone to seed, I guess it’s too hot to grow them now?? Zucchini – in a few months I’ll [...]

Happy St Pats!

The weather finally turned into spring today. It’s been absolutely beautiful – over 70 degrees, and staying up there for the next 10 days!! How exciting! The trees are in bloom, the grass is green, the sun stays out later, and my allergies haven’t started yet. All is good in the world. What could be [...]

1 year RD-versary

Today marks my one year anniversary of passing the RD exam and officially becoming a Registered Dietitian. Thought I should dedicate a post to the occasion. People always often ask “What made you decide to become a dietitian?”. Not that I’m complaining; I frequently ask others (or at least wonder). The stories behind anyone’s career [...]

D-Lightful Facts

Happy Earth Day! In honor of today’s focus on the earth, I thought I’d provide some information on Vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin” that I learned from today’s conference: Vitamin D was traditionally just thought of for bone health and preventing osteoporosis. New research shows it can help prevent much more than bone disease: diabetes, [...]

Go, Slow, Whoa!

Work was a little on the slow side, so I did some research for my school nutrition projects. I’m currently working with some local schools here in East Tennessee on implementing the NIH’s “Go, Slow, Whoa” program. A really fun and easy concept – foods are categorized into the color-coded Go, Slow, Whoa, and kids [...]

Clapton Tutorial

Playing wonder-woman… Being the awesome girlfriend that I am, I bought The Boy tickets to the upcoming Eric Clapton concert in Nashville. I know, I’m awesome :) In preparation, I spent this afternoon Groovesharking Eric Clapton’s greatest hits, so I would be familiar. It’s embarrassing to admit that I don’t know much of his music, [...]

Today’s Lesson

I’ve been doing lots of reading/researching today on nutrition news, partly for my high school presentation that I’m still working on. Some really interesting things I’ve come across: A study out of Austria has shown that young adults with beginning signs/symptoms of schizophrenia might benefit from taking fish oil, possibly prevent psychotic episodes. That would [...]

Nutrition misinformation… it’s everywhere

As an RD2B, I hear everyday about our role in “fighting the battle of nutrition misinformation”. People hear nutrition information from a million sources, few of which are credible evidence-based info from Registered Dietitians, the only people you should be trusting to give nutrition advice.  I know that people are very confused on nutrition related topics: [...]