Enlightened Eater

It’s mid-March and Dietitians of Canada’s National Nutrition Month continues. This year’s theme,  Best Food Forward: Plan Shop Cook Enjoy  is essentially a plan on grocery shopping. After all, it is the first step in preparing enlightened eats at home. But with life in the fast lane-  for example, long work hours or juggling various […]

It’s definitely time to clear up the confusion. In spite of what coconut oil  fans say, virgin versus virgin, coconut oil does not beat out olive oil when it comes to smoke point. An oil’s smoke point is that temperature where a heated oil will begin to smoke and degrade. The result can be the […]

Over the years, the word diet has come to mean an eating pattern that will likely leave you feeling deprived.  But in fact, it really refers to whatever it is that you eat. The Mediterranean diet is a perfect example.  It signifies the eating regime  identified back in the 1950s when American  scientist Ancel Keys […]

It’s a long weekend for many – both in Canada and the U.S. If you’re looking for some activities for your youngsters, why not get them into the kitchen? It’s a great way to introduce healthy eats their way. It’s also a way to rid your home of picky eaters. When my daughters were very […]

Here are the last five of my 10 steps that can help provide the foundation to make smart food choices – food choices that can become habits. Life’s too busy to spend most of your waking hours trying to figure out how to eat healthy. A key point that’s worth repeating is that in order […]

How to eat well on auto-pilot Well, it’s  a few weeks into the new year and chances are that most of your resolutions have already fallen by the wayside.  Unfortunately, all too often,  the resolve to eat better is one of the first to go. But why not make this year different? Instead of  resolving […]

What’s on the menu is critical to reaping breakfast’s rewards. Having a high carb breakfast, especially one with mainly quickly digested carbohydrates – bagel with cream cheese, a monster muffin, toast, a sugar-laden instant breakfast bar or shake  or even just cereal and fruit –  won’t help you lay the foundation of healthy eating. Neither […]

Here we go again- it’s time for New Year’s resolutions, many of which you make year after year but somehow never follow through on. And I would venture a bet that eating healthy or losing weight is at the top of many of your past New Year’s lists. This year, why not aim for success […]