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A really easy way to watch calories is to check the Nutrition Facts panel for serving size. Especially for foods without clearly recognizable portions, like cereal. It turns out most of the bowls we use to eat cereal hold a lot more cereal than the official serving size. Take Raisin Bran cereal. The official serving [...]
Food labels: I love that we have them; I hate how they’re set up. And I’m not alone. I polled some of my RD* colleagues recently, posing this question: “If you could wave a magic wand at food labels, what would you change?” The magic wand part is key, because of course RDs don’t control [...]
Mimi’s Cafe has expanded healthy and lower calorie choices, with the Fresh & Fit menu, and smaller portions of regular items. But the best recent change is the website nutrition information system. You click a menu item and the nutrition facts open immediately in a box. No endless clicking through different pages; no scrolling down [...]
What do restaurant chefs think we’ll all be eating in 2011? The National Restaurant Association surveyed over 1500 chefs to find out “What’s Hot in 2011″ for restaurants. While many of the Top 20 predictions focus on buzz words like local, sustainable and organic, some have a potential nutritional impact. #4: Nutritionally balanced children’s dishes. [...]
Are you haunted by nutritional hobgoblins? Halloween ghosts and monsters may haunt us once a year, but food and nutrition spooks are scaring people everyday all year long. Are they really that scary? High Fructose Corn Syrup: Eek! It causes obesity and everything else that’s bad. No. Too many calories cause obesity. If you consume [...]
Would you like a free consult with a registered dietitian? You may have missed the chance already. The Hershey Company (as in chocolate) teamed up with the American Dietetic Association to arrange free consultations. The only catch: the offer is limited to the first 1994 people who get online and sign up by December 31st. [...]
Nothing says summer quite like watermelon, even though it increasingly turns up in grocery stores in spring. It's one fruit that (mostly) hasn't … Read More
