Tag: nutrition as medicine
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Podcast: What Would You Do to Improve Your Athletic Performance?
Welcome! and thank you for listening!. As an endurance athlete and triathlete, I enjoy watching the Tour de France. It is perhaps one of the most grueling endurance events that occurs every year. Performance enhancing, pain deterring drugs have been a part since the inception of the race. The testing for banned substances usually lags…
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Half Way Through the Year… Time to Check In!
A Thursday Thought from Dietitian Addie We check our email, we check how many likes or followers we have on social media, but how often do we truly check in on our health? Typically, we pay attention to our health when something goes wrong or at the first of the year when the hot topic…
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Blogpost: What is Your Nutritional Story?
I had a patient say to me years back, “never trust a skinny cook”. I guess that is partly why she is no longer my patient. Changing beliefs can be hard. We often construct our story around beliefs and hang on tight. We make justifications to suit our actions. Our words are powerful and our…
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Blogpost: Fear of not getting enough
You know the vegan drill. Where do I get my protein? How about calcium? What about good fats? Will I be hungry? Will I be satisfied? Yes, satisfaction is the real problem that is feared when considering becoming a plant strong vegan. I heard a discussion about food deserts. It is a real problem in…
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Blogpost: Is a Vegan Diet the Best?
We all want to be the best we can be. So why not eat the best so we can be the best. However, when it comes to nutrition, I am more likely to hear, I eat “pretty healthy”. It seems as though most people are quite satisfied with “pretty healthy”. We lower the bar when…
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Podcast: Happy Mother’s Day Special
Welcome! and thank you for listening!. Happy Mother’s day or perhaps Happy Women’s day to all of you who care for humans, animals, neighbors, run households and support others. This is a really short episode wishing all of you a peaceful and healthy day. I hope that includes some exercise because it is important everyday.…
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Blogpost: How TV can Reinforce Misconceptions
Pharmaceutical advertisements are aimed to sell wellness through medications. They are also aimed at diverting the causation of the illnesses, and taking away any power of the individual to influence their diseases. The overweight kind man wants to spend more time with his grandchildren so he takes a diabetic medication or cholesterol medications to control…
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Blogpost: How much weight can you exercise off?
Most people blame the lack of exercise for weight gain. If only they had more time or discipline to exercise their weight would be better. Gym memberships are as common as Netflix accounts, but we still have an obesity problem in this country. I see the same 3 people walking on my morning runs. No…
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Blogpost: The Hunt
My uncles used to ask my father if he caught anything when he came back in from hunting. He would reply he did not “catch” but he killed a squirrel or a deer. That violent act of killing happens each time before someone consumes meat. Most people only picture the act of shooting in the…
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Blogpost: The Fear of Carbs!
People have been told by their parents for hundreds of years to eat your vegetables. Healthy people eat fruits and vegetables. Many people grew up with backyard gardens full of vegetables and yes, potatoes. Even the USDA has a plate that includes a minimum of 4 servings of fruits and vegetables. No one spoke of…