Healthy Food Chart

It seems like everywhere you turn these days people are talking about “clean eating.” But what does it mean to “eat clean” anyway? Although there is no official definition, my personal interpretation is to focus on eating plenty of whole foods (one-ing…

“Make half your grains whole” is one of the messages of National Nutrition Month this year, but what exactly does that mean beyond just switching from white bread to whole-wheat bread? Whole grains differ from refined grains (white rice, anything made …

Have you ever wished that you could eat the same amount of food (or even more) and still lose weight? Well, actually, you can! Studies have shown that people tend to eat about the same amount of food (volume-wise) each day. That means if you can build …

Keeping yourself healthy involves more than eating plenty of fruits and veggies and getting in your daily workout. It also means keeping your kitchen safe from foodborne illness. Here are five things you need to know to keep your food free of bad bacte…

“I make healthy choices until after dinner, and it’s all downhill from there. And I know that’s the worst time I could be eating.” As a dietitian, I hear this lament from people again and again. While it’s a myth that anything you eat after a certain t…