Once a staple on family breakfast tables, fruit juice seems to have lost its mojo. Derided as being “full of sugar” and vilified by pediatricians and family medicine doctors, parents are serving less fruit juice. But is that a mistake? Take orange juice, for example. According to Food and Drug Administration definitions, it’s an excellent […]
Eating Challenges of a Dietetics Student: A Guest Post
As a Dietetics major and full-time college student, I believe that I have had some success with sticking to a balanced, nutritious diet. However, I know firsthand how hard it can be to adjust to a new chapter of life. Food might be the last thing on students’ minds when they move to a new […]
Eat Your Winter Whites
It always bothers me to hear the advice “Eat the colors of the rainbow.” As the thinking goes, the more colorful the produce, the more nutrients it contains. But the fact is many white or off-white plant foods can be just as nourishing as those colorful red, blue and yellow foods. Which foods are they […]
Just take a little bite: Getting children to try new holiday foods
“You don’t want to hurt Grandma’s feelings, do you? She always makes this for us at holiday time.” Maybe it’s Grandma, or maybe it’s an aunt, uncle or cousin. Have you found yourself saying this when your child is offered a holiday food item he or she has never seen or tasted before? Whether you’re […]
“Processed” is not always a bad word
For many media pundits and the average consumer, the word processed should be spelled “j-u-n-k.” If only we stopped eating processed foods, the thinking goes, Americans would avoid illness and live forever. Of course that’s not true. Yet the degree of processing counts. There are lightly processed foods and ultra-processed foods. The latter are highly […]
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