The gardening season is upon us and that means it's time for gardening videos on my channel! In this video, I'm giving you an update on my garden planning progress and chatting with you about my idea for gardening video this year. I'm thinking about switching things up and making some different gardening videos from what I've done in the past and I want YOUR input!
You've probably heard the idea that food is medicine or that food should be medicine, but that idea can cause some real harm. As a dietitian, I know that food can definitely have an impact on health in general and that it can be important in the treatment of illness and disease. Medical Nutrition Therapy helps a lot of people heal from serious injuries, treat conditions, and manage symptoms. With that said, the idea that food is medicine sometimes gets taken too far. Things become dangerous when people turn to food as a cure for every illness and turn down medical treatment in favor of a certain diet. It's even more dangerous when that person promotes what they're doing to the public. We've heard multiple stories about people who have used social media to advocate for unproven food based treatments for things like cancer and brain tumors. In some cases, these people didn't even have the condition that they claimed to have and were just telling a story to get followers and make money. I'm covering all of that and more in this video.
Come cook with me! In this live stream, I'm making dinner and answering viewer questions. Watch while I make a healthy dinner and see how I put a meal together. You'll also get to learn some knife skills and cooking tips. This month, I'm making grass-fed beef patties with oven roasted potato wedges and an arugula salad. Learn how to make roasted potatoes, how to make a simple vinaigrette salad dressing, and more!
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It's time for another What I Eat in a Day video! I'm giving you a peak at what this dietitian eats in a day in February. This What I Eat in a Day showcases some of my favorite healthy meals and meals that I love to have in the winter. I know we all need some healthy meal ideas and inspiration from time to time, so I hope that seeing what I eat in a day as a nutritionist will give you some things you can try in your own meals and meal planning!
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I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed and stressed here lately, so I wanted to do something a little more casual. So, let's talk about Girl Scout cookies and the types I got this year! I also wanted to talk about one thing I think is contributing to the way I'm feeling: the seriousness of so much of the food and nutrition talk out there. There are definitely serious topics to cover when it comes to nutrition, but I also think we need to make room for stuff that's just fun. Our brains need a break.
Ever wonder what a dietitian or nutritionist buys at the grocery store? Today, I'm showing you! In this video I'm showing you my healthy grocery haul from this week's shopping trip! This grocery haul is on the smaller side for me, but it will give you an idea of some of the items that I like to purchase. I'm shopping for two people, me and my husband, but I think you'll find this helpful (or at least interesting) no matter how many people you're grocery shopping for in your house.
When you're flying, it's a good idea to have some snacks packed. If your airport has some food items that you love, that's awesome, but there are still some reasons why you might want to bring your own food with you. Maybe you have a tight schedule and won't have time to buy food at the airport. Maybe you don't want to spend money on airport food that is more expensive than what you can buy elsewhere. Maybe you just want to be prepared in case your flight gets delayed or you get stuck on the tarmac for an hour before your plane even takes off. Whatever your reason, packing some snacks with you is a good idea. A lot of people think that you can't bring food through airport security or are unsure about the TSA food rules and regulations. The good news is, food is absolutely allowed and you can bring it through security. The only thing you need to be careful about is any liquid or spreadable foods. They have to follow the same guidelines as any other liquids you're packing. In this video, I'm sharing some of my favorite healthy airplane snacks. These are all easy to pack and you probably have several of them in your kitchen already! I hope these airplane travel snack ideas help you when you're packing for your next flight!
Weight Watchers recently announced a new promotion targeting teens. In the Summer of 2018 Weight Watchers will be offering free memberships for children ages 13-17. Weight Watchers is a diet program that is based on a points system and is basically a spin on calorie counting. Diets in general aren't healthy, but they're especially bad for children. I find this promotion to be incredibly troubling considering all of the negative impacts that dieting can have, including the development of eating disorders.
If you'd like to share your thoughts about this online and let Weight Watchers know that this new promotion for teenagers is NOT ok, use the hashtag #WakeUpWeightWatchers in your posts.
Weight Watchers recently announced a new promotion targeting teens. In the Summer of 2018 Weight Watchers will be offering free memberships for children ages 13-17. Weight Watchers is a diet program that is based on a points system and is basically a spin on calorie counting. Diets in general aren't healthy, but they're especially bad for children. I find this promotion to be incredibly troubling considering all of the negative impacts that dieting can have, including the development of eating disorders.
If you'd like to share your thoughts about this online and let Weight Watchers know that this new promotion for teenagers is NOT ok, use the hashtag #WakeUpWeightWatchers in your posts.
A lot of the foods I eat change throughout the year depending on what's in season and what sounds good to me at the time, but there are some healthy food staples that I always have on hand. These are the foods that are incorporated into a lot of my meals because they provide great flavor or that can be used as a main ingredient in healthy meals or snacks. I've two videos like this previously I thought it was time for me to made another one and share more of the basic foods that I keep stocked in my kitchen. I hope this can give you some ideas and inspiration for your own meals and some insight into what I like to keep around.
Come cook with me! In this live stream, I'm making dinner and answering viewer questions. Watch while I make a healthy dinner and see how I put a meal together. You'll also get to learn some knife skills and cooking tips. This month, I'm making an entree salad. Salad night is great for when you need some quick and easy, but a lot of the time salad are that satisfying or filling. In this live stream, I'm showing you how to make a salad that will actually fill you up and answering your questions along the way. This month, there were a lot of cooking questions in the chat, so get excited for those!
It's hard for me to believe, but it's the time of year in my area for garden planning and ordering seeds! I love this stage of the gardening process because it's a chance for me to imagine all of the possibilities for this year's garden. In this video, I'm sharing my process for deciding what to grow in my garden and which seeds to order. It starts with reflecting on last year's garden and what worked well and then going through all of the different options in the seed catalogs I receive. I hope that hearing how I select different varieties for my garden will give you some ideas as you plan your garden this year!
It's time for another What I Eat in a Day video! I'm giving you a peak at what this dietitian eats in a day in January. This What I Eat in a Day showcases some of my favorite healthy meals and meals that I love to have in the winter. I know we all need some healthy meal ideas and inspiration from time to time, so I hope that seeing what I eat in a day as a nutritionist will give you some things you can try in your own meals and meal planning!
Halo Top and other diet ice creams are quite popular and there are more "healthy" ice creams coming out all the time. But diet ice creams in general and Halo Top more specifically have a lot of problems. Through their marketing, Halo Top promotes a diet mentality that encourages people to ignore their body's own cues and instead "eat the whole pint." They also promote a good food/bad food way of looking at things and even use moral and religious terms and symbols in their advertising. Even the name Halo Top ties the food to this message about morality. On top of all of that, the idea that we even need diet ice cream is an issue. There's nothing wrong with eating regular ice cream.
Coming up with healthy dinner ideas can by tricky sometimes and every now and then we all need some dinner inspiration. I find it helpful personally to get dinner ideas from the people I follow, so I like to show you the meals that I've been loving in my own life. The meals in this video are the ones that I've really been into recently and I hope that they can give you some ideas for you own meals, or at least satisfy some curiosity. If you've ever wondered what a dietitian eats or what a nutritionist eats, this will give you look at what one dietitian's dinner look like.
CVS has announced that they are changing the way they approach editing and retouching images in advertisements for beauty products. As part of this new effort, they will be using a new symbol that they are calling a Beauty Mark to indicate that an image has NOT been edited to change things like the model's shape, size, proportions, skin color, eye color, and wrinkles. Their goals is to only use images that have not been altered in such way for their own products and then require transparency for any brand that is sold in their stores by the year 2020. CVS says that they want to work with people in the beauty industry to set more clear guidelines for this effort. I'm excited to see this change as we come to realize the negative image that media can have on body image and how it can set unrealistic beauty standards. I'm also interested to see hoe brands adjust to these changes at CVS and how this sort of thing might influence other types of media, like food photos.
The keto diet is quite popular right now. No matter where you go, it seems like someone is talking about keto. Some people praise the diet for weight loss and others promote it as a diet for general good health. But what is a ketogenic diet and why do people do keto? And is a ketogenic diet healthy? What about the benefits of keto that proponents of the diet talk about? In this video, I'm breaking down the basics of the keto diet, talking about the reasons people go on a ketogenic diet, sharing the problems with the keto diet, and much more!
Lots of people talk about how hard it is to make healthy changes. Whether it's eating healthier, getting more physical activity, getting more sleep, or managing stress, almost everyone would agree that it's a difficult thing to do. But why is it so hard to make healthy changes? It's hard to make healthy changes because it's hard to make any type of change. It's not the healthy part that makes it difficult, it's that it's challenging to change habits or change routines. Habit and routine are powerful tools that our brain uses to make life easier. Habits and routines make it so we don't have to make as many decisions. They help us go on auto-pilot with some things so we can focus on other things. This makes changing them hard, but it also means that once we do change them everything gets easier again. So then comes the question: How do we make healthy changes? Here are some tips to make the whole process easier.
Come cook with me! In this live stream, I'm making dinner and answering viewer questions. Watch while I make a healthy dinner and see how I put a meal together. You'll also get to learn some knife skills and cooking tips. This month, I'm making slow cooker pulled pork, roasted potato wedges, and red cabbage slaw. There were a lot of nutrition questions that came up during this live stream covering a variety of topics including weight loss, recovering from holiday binge eating/overeating, intuitive eating, and mindful eating.
I'm not a fan of diets, but there is one diet I think we all should go on. This diet isn't about what you eat. It's about a different kind of consumption: your media consumption. We're talking Instagram, Facebook, the news, television, YouTube, podcasts, and more. Now, I'm not saying we need to cut these things out entirely (unless that's something you think would be helpful for you), but we do need to be more intentional with the media and messages we allow ourselves to be exposed to and curate the media in our life. This might mean muting people, unfollowing people, or changing the channel when we see diet messages. When diet culture pops up in an ad for a weight loss plan or your best friend's new year's resolution, it's important to recognize how that thing is effecting you and take the appropriate actions to get it out of your face.
