Citrusy Roasted Beet Salad
Try this easy and nutritious salad. Beets are high in antioxidants that fight cell damage and inflammation.
Registered dietitians and weight loss medications – a perfect pair
Weight loss medications are on top of everyone’s minds these days, and with good reason. These medications are revolutionizing the patient’s experience by controlling hunger, cravings and enhancing satiety.
Addition nutrition
Making dietary changes to improve our health or to lose weight can feel overwhelming and lead to all-or-nothing thinking. It can sometimes feel like we have to choose between eating what we want and eating what we think is good for us.
Tips to stay active during the holiday season
The holidays can be full of joy and happiness but can also be full of stress and chaos. We get to spend time with loved ones doing fun things, but it can also be accompanied by busy schedules and delicious calorie dense foods. Couple that with cold weather, it can make physical activity hard to achieve and unfavorably alter our body composition.
Higher protein roasted butternut squash
Instead of adding cream to your soup, bump up the protein in this fall inspired soup by adding cottage cheese to make it creamy.
Emotional eating, overeating, binge eating – is there a difference?
What is emotional eating? It can be positive (eating to celebrate an engagement, cake to celebrate a birthday) or negative (eating for relief, distraction, numbness), and is most often referred to in a negative way. People tend to reach for foods that are nutrient poor (not containing a lot of nutrients) leading to food guilt…
Zucchini Chicken Meatballs
From your bariatric nutrition team These chicken meatballs are a nice change of pace from your traditional meatballs. The zucchini in the recipe helps keep the meatballs moist and delicious and is a great way to sneak in some veggies. Ingredients: 1 lb. ground chicken 1 medium zucchini grated; gently squeeze some of the liquid…
Aging independently
By Barbara Broggelwirth, MS RDN, CDN If you ask most older adults approaching their senior years, their desires are often the same – to maintain independence for as long as possible without having to rely on others for help with activities of daily living. This is known as “aging in place”. Living at home…
Atomic Habits – successful behavior change
Atomic Habits by James Clear, goes into vivid detail about why it’s so hard to change our behaviors. The author discusses what we can do to change our bad habits into good ones for long-term behavior change. It’s important for us to take accountability for our actions, and when we are unhappy with ourselves, we must be the ones to change those actions.
Harvesting and enjoying your garden tomatoes
What is a summer garden without tomatoes? We plant a garden every year, and each year we change it up a little. But one vegetable remains a constant – the tomato. We always have two varieties growing – a cherry or grape tomato and a Roma or beefsteak tomato. Having a summer garden is a great family project from planting, watering, feeding the plants to harvesting the fruit and vegetables. Even coming up with recipes for the bountiful harvest can be fun.