Today is Registered Dietitian Day! If you read this blog you probably have some degree of interest in nutrition and hopefully I have been able to show you the knowledge and expertise a RD brings to the field. If you think you might ...

As a dietitian, people always want to know what they can do to eat well. Healthful eating is easy if you focus on choosing foods that have good nutrition for the calories. By filling your shopping cart with a variety of vegetables a...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the First Lady Michelle Obama have announced a cool new Apps for Healthy Kids competition as part of the Let's Move! initiative. So if you're a software developer, a game designer, or you've go...

I am sticking with my warm weather diet -- grilled dinners at night and today, a smoothie for breakfast. I even mixed it up a little and added frozen mixed berries to my usual banana, peanut butter and milk combo.

Here's an article that I wrote to help those of you who've slipped on your diet Fell Off the Diet Wagon? 7 Tips to Pick Yourself Up & Break Free By Connie Bennett, CHHC, CPC Have you fallen off the diet wagon? Do you feel like an a...

We fired up the grill again tonight and had dinner on the table in no time -- with minimal clean up afterward. Tonight it was steak tips, sweet potatoes and broccoli.

Thousands of processed food products have been recalled due to salmonella contamination of a flavor enhancer called hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP. This flavor enhancer is found in a wide variety of processed foods including ...

The stretch of nice weather continues! It's so much easier getting out of bed when the sun is shining and you know it's not freezing. I ate some strawberries and a quick bowl of cereal for breakfast and soon we are heading out to a ...

I was going about my day, actually starting to think about how it was winding down then my phone alerted me of the Board meeting I was supposed to attend at 6pm! Mike rushed home and I made it on time - thank goodness for those aler...

What could be more nutritious than fresh vegetables? Frozen ones, quite possibly. A new study finds that frozen vegetables, which are usually processed within hours of being harvested, may contain more of certain nutrients than "fre...

So far the day is going really well - I feel like I have accomplished a lot and it's just noontime now! The nice weather outside is calling to me but I'm just going to take a quick walk with Bruce after I finish this bowl of soup......

Hey, hey! Bernie Salazar here… I’m so excited to share this video blog with you on one of my favorite foods I’ve been eating since losing 130 pounds on The Biggest Loser — The Amazing Avocado! Watch me turn one of my old meals – bur...

The stretch of nice weather seems to be continuing - I love it! Hopefully today I can get out for a good walk if I get my work done early...

It’s National Nutrition Month and the theme this year is “nutrition from the ground up”. I’m offering advice how you can set build a healthy weight from the ground up – without getting duped by any costly “solutions” you’ve seen bef...

I brought Will over to the TDBank Garden tonight to watch my hometown boys basketball team play in the state semi-finals. They won so now they are headed for the state championship -- Go Falmouth Clippers!

I just got back from a little speaking engagement where I got to tell my story about how I became the dietitian I am today. I have done this for a few years now and each time I leave after hearing the others tell their story too I a...

Q. I am on high blood pressure meds and have noticed a lot of cramping in my legs. How much potassium in mgs should I be taking a day? A. The Institute of Medicine established 4.7 grams (4700 mg) of...

I thought I had myself pretty well organized this morning, I wasn't rushing and I wasn't late but somehow I left my camera back in Boston and I am south of the city at a Panera Bread doing some work -- one day I will have it all tog...

What an awesome weekend I had. It felt like spring and we were out and about like it was -- if only this weather would last!

We made it to my parents' house and like it often does, dinner turned out to be a very late event there...