Category: Nutrition News
Beth Olson shares food and nutrion updates
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Making the most of leftovers
Using your leftovers in later meals can save time, money, and trips to the grocery store. Here are some ideas to help you use your leftovers: Have a “leftover” night,…
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Nutrition for seniors
For older adults living at home, this may be a challenging time to eat healthy. Lack of meals at senior centers, difficulty with transportation, and perhaps challenges to using online…
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Tips to Avoid Mindless Snacking
When sitting home all day with easy access to a refrigerator or pantry full of snacks, it can be easy to fall victim to “bored eating.” It’s important to stay…
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Nutrition for a healthy immune system
We’re more concerned than ever about what we can do to keep our immune system strong. There’s no “magic bullet” to do this, so be careful of products promising to…
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Kids at home? Cooking for fun and for learning
Healthy eating habits are developed early, and with schools closed and so much time being spent at home, what better time to get your kids in the kitchen than now?…
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Fasting diets
There is a lot of interest in fasting to lose weight, often called “intermittent fasting.” There are a few ways people might fast to try and lose weight: they may…
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Toddler “Milk”
There was a study just published which used Nielsen data to look at the sales of infant formula and toddler milks. As advertising of infant formula and sales has fallen,…
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March is National Nutrition Month
National Nutrition Month® is promoted annually by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The theme for 2020 is Eat Right, Bite by Bite. The campaign is encouraging everyone to…
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Are you what your mother eats?
Published on May 24th, 2018 in the Nature Communications journal, Tracy Brawley from the Oregon Health and Science University summarized the outcomes of research done to define the molecular basis…