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 […]

Love thyself. Yes, that’s what I said. Love thyself – especially if your body is not to your liking. It’s one of the most important things to teach your child. I thought of how times have changed from the past few generations until now as I was reading a blog post by Kim Bongiorno entitled, […]

This one is a Give Me a Break post if there ever was one. Reports abound about a new study that suggests that mixing alcohol with diet drinks can make you drunker than if you have a sugar-laden soft drink as a mixer. The research assessed blood alcohol levels following the consumption of an alcoholic […]

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 […]

Somehow as parents we  expect that our kids can become  healthy eaters overnight. We introduce them to nutritious eats at a young age but if they don’t like our offerings, we tend to give up too easily.  If  the broccoli gets shunned the first time it’s presented, it becomes a veggie that makes few appearances […]