“Care to comment on the article, Ten Thousand New Reasons Not To Worry About Pesticide Residues?” asks Enlightened Eater Facebook fan, Karen Jorgenson Cooper. Karen, at first glance, this article in Forbes magazine by just looking at the title alone, sounds very reassuring. It basically says we have nothing to worry about. The article […]
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Nutrition Month 2016: Smart Stocks for the Kitchen
Have you been taking part in this year’s Dietitians of Canada Nutrition Month, Take a 100 meal journey, make small changes, one meal at a time? If so, are you making any headway? If you haven’t managed to make changes or haven’t been part of the action, it’s not too late to jump on […]
Nutrition Month 2016: Why get better acquainted with your kitchen
A key strategy to successfully implement this year’s Dietitians of Canada’s Nutrition Month theme, Take a 100 meal journey, one meal at a time, is to prepare your eats at home. Homemade fare makes it easy to make simple modifications to improve your nutritional profile. It’s almost effortless to add some frozen berries to your […]
Nutrition Month: Take a 100 meal journey, one meal at a time
Tomorrow marks the first day of Dietitians of Canada Nutrition Month. This year’s theme is aimed at making small changes in your food routines over time that would ultimately yield healthier eating habits. After all, habits are what you do on auto-pilot. You don’t have to spend hours on end to make habits […]
Buy Parmesan by the piece and skip the wood pulp
When I was young, I hated Parmesan cheese. Or at least, I thought it was Parmesan cheese. It came in a can and was found on the supermarket store shelf – not the refrigerated section. The smell was absolutely horrible to me. As I got older, I graduated to almost liking the grated stuff that […]
A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may promote better nutrition
There’s more to healthy eating than just calories Last week, Dietitians of Canada (of which I am a long-time member) released a position statement recommending that an excise tax of at least 10-20% be applied to sugar-sweetened beverages sold in Canada. The association is taking a strong stand as there’s no doubt about the […]
The healthwashing of kale
Is kale the new oat bran? i By now you have heard that McDonald’s kale salad has more calories than a Double Big Mac. A CBC news report states that once you plop the accompanying Asiago Caesar dressing on the “crispy chicken” version, the salad’s nutritional profile doesn’t look so good. According to McDonald’s […]
Oprah’s shocking lack of self-esteem
l I expected more from Oprah. This incredibly powerful woman implies that she cannot fulfill her potential because she’s overweight. In her commercial for Weight Watchers, entitled Oprah’s New Weight Watchers Journey , she comes out with the following statements: “Inside every overweight woman is the woman she knows she can be.” “You’ve gotten […]
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