Enlightened Eater

In my previous post, I outlined some of the difficulties in determining what’s on your plate when you eat out. Posting nutrition information on menu boards at chain restaurants simply makes sense. Yet there are many staunch opponents. Not surprisingly most of  these same eateries are not in favour of making these disclosures. One of […]

Have you ever been mistaken about making an enlightened choice at restaurant – maybe ordering a salad with more calories and fat than a burger, a veggie-filled stirfry which makes pizza look lean or a coffee drink containing  a half day’s calories? Welcome to the world of eating out. Making informed decisions, in this day […]

In my last post,  What’s the cost of perfection?,  I talked about our quest for perfect-looking  and mild-tasting fruits and vegetables. As a result, we may be forfeiting both nutrition and flavour. While in some cases, as with that of  the newer varieties of sweet corn, the taste may be more pleasing,  but the pale […]

Perfection- it’s something that so many strive for.  It’s also something, though, that can be our undoing – whether it’s trying to achieve a particular body shape or as simple as in the shape or colour of the produce we eat. I’ll leave the body shape issues for another day but I do want to […]

If you’re a BBQ aficionado,  likely this past weekend marked the start of your grilling season.  But as there can be some downsides to eating grilled  food, practicing BBQ  smarts is a wise idea. And one way is to spice it up. In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, University of […]

It’s the time of year to celebrate the Mediterranean Diet. While the diet may be centuries old,  it was the Boston-based think tank  Oldways who  reclaimed it and put it back on the map and onto the dinner plates of North Americans. As a dietitian, I was familiar with the research of  Ancel Keys, the […]

Do you know what a fundamental difference between the food and produce industries is? For the most part, it seems that many in the food industry  want to maintain the status quo in offering consumers all kinds of products with not much in the way of real nutrition. True there is a segment trying to […]

Have you heard about The Kale Project? It began as an initiative to reintroduce this nutrition-packed leafy green vegetable to Paris. Reintroduce? It seems that the French had too much of these vegetables during the time of food shortages during World War II. The French might want to take a lesson from the Mediterranean Diet. It, […]