By Angie Dye, MS, RDN, CSSD, LD On New Year’s Eve of 2015, I decided I was going to do a Half Ironman triathlon. It had been an idea swirling around in my head for a while, but I always created a very long list of reasons why this was a crazy idea. For starters, 1.2 […]
Archives: April 2017
It’s Wet. It’s Green. It’s Bumpy! How Autism Can Impact Eating
By Julie Stefanski MEd, RDN, CSSD, LDN, CDE Shawn wasn’t your typical four year old. Extremely thin and unable to communicate verbally, his entire diet consisted of infant oatmeal cereal with pureed fruit mixed in. For three meals a day, that was it. No meats, no vegetables, no solid food whatsoever. During his first visit to […]
Recipes To Use Up Your Hardboiled Easter Eggs
by Deanna Segrave-Daly, RD If you always have A LOT of hard boiled eggs in your refrigerator after Easter and/or few people in your family eat them (I’m the only one in my family that does, sadly), I have 11 delicious recipes for you! All of these creations are from food-loving dietitians and they all […]
Avocado, Grapeseed and Walnut Oils – Worth the Hype and Expense?
by Laura Ali, MS, RDN, LDN The choice of cooking oils has expanded from one or two vegetable oils and olive oil to a wide range of nut and seed oils, many with purported health benefits along with unique flavor characteristics. The grocery store shelves are lined with everything from imported extra virgin olive to walnut […]