I often have people stop me and ask me nutritional questions, so I thought it would be fun to share some of these questions with you from time to time. Q. I remember your article regarding protein and that our protein needs are low, I make a veggie and greens smoothie every morning is this [...]

The other day I was talking with my Mother (she lives in Michigan) and she was telling me that my three sisters volunteered to do her spring cleaning this year!  Thinking about my Mom’s spring cleaning plan gave me the idea for this newsletter, why not spring clean our diets too? When I think of [...]

National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign held annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and this year we are celebrating its 40th anniversary.  This campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.  This year I am supporting [...]

Happy New Year!  This year I will be supporting Meatless Monday.  This campaign is a non-profit public health initiative in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and seeks to educate the public about the benefits of reducing meat consumption.  Just one meatless day a week cuts one’s saturated fat intake by [...]

Often people ask me “what is the one thing I can do to better my diet?”  Although there is not just one thing, I often ask how many times a week do you eat out?  According to the 2012 Zagat survey, people stated that they eat out or take-out food 45% of the time.  Where [...]

Thanksgiving is here, which is a time for family, festivity and food. It’s a time for giving thanks and it’s also an opportunity to reunite with loved ones, friends, and relations we haven’t seen for years.  Everyone looks forward to some time off from work, a break from school and most popular, an opportunity to eat [...]

OK, if you are like me you cannot wait for this election to be over.  I don’t want to see anymore commercials, receive any more junk mail, or get anymore phone calls that do not have a “do not call” list!  So why am I writing this article about Prop 37?  Because I have been [...]

I’m so lucky to live in California where 80% of all fruits and vegetables in the U.S. are grown.  And even though fall really isn’t in the air as I sit to write this article on an October afternoon with the high today of 94°F all my favorite fall fruits and veggies are still available.  [...]

Foodborne illness is a major health problem in the United States.   The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states there are approximately 76 million cases of foodborne illness every year, which leads to 325,000 people being hospitalized, and 5,000 deaths.  The USDA estimates the cost to be $3 billion for hospitalization and $20-40 billion lost [...]