Tag: nutrition expert
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Blogpost: Comfort Foods
What is comfort food? Google says it is food that provides consolation or a feeling of wellbeing. It often has a high sugar content and is associated with home cooking. Comfort foods are usually made with simple ingredient and often high in carbohydrates. Southern living lists Mac and Cheese, fried chicken, creamy mushroom grits, biscuits,…
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Podcast: Episode 166- What the Fork with Addie Dulaney Majnaric, RDN
Welcome and thank you for listening. Today is a “What the ForK” episode on supplements. It seems impossible that there are so many benefits from eating a whole foods plant based diet and those claims certainly can generate a lot of discussion and debate. Luckily, there are many scientific papers to back up those claims…
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Blogpost: My fruit started out in a pie
Most of us did not start our lives eating just vegetables and fruits. We ate the “American Diet” which was a meat, a starch and a vegetable. In my grandmother’s house there was usually desert and most of the time there was a choice of pie. Fruit pie or filled pie. Why pie? Because it…
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Podcast Episode 165- Preventing colon cancer
Welcome and thank you for listening. Maybe I should have titled todays episode, How to get colon cancer? The American Cancer Society has been watching people over the past 10 years develop colon cancer at increasing rates in their 40s. The incidence is up 50% over the last 10 years. They now suggest we begin…
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Podcast: An Interview with PlantPositiverunning Kattie and Gwen during Nutriton Class
Welcome and thank you for listening. This episode features Katie and Gwen from Plantpositiverunning.com. I stumbled upon their YouTube channel of the same name and was hooked. They are two of the most positive people I have met in a long time. They are both quite the ultra running athletes and have podiumed several times in…
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Podcast Episode 162-The Incredible Shrinking Bearded Man
Welcome and thank you for listening. Today I am honored to have Jeff Koettel on the show. Jeff has struggled with his weight most of his life trying numerous fad diets and hitting a maximum weight of 500 pounds. Today, Jeff attributes adopting a simple plant based nutrition plan to his ability to maintain his…
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Blogpost: Do you want to know an Investment secret?
What is the best investment you can make with regards to your health and the health of your family? It is not a treadmill or a gym membership. It is not life insurance. It is not supplement. It is fruit. Colorful fresh or freshly frozen fruit. The red, purple, orange, pink, green and yellows…
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Podcast-Mendocino 50K Report
Welcome and thank you for listening. I am an 50K Ultra finisher!. If you have not visited Mendocino, California and would like a vegan destination vacation this is the place. The Standford Inn is a great in that it is entirely vegan and pet friendly. Dog companions are even welcome to join you for dinner.…
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Your Dietitian’s Earth Day Tips!
Earth, what a beautiful place we are blessed to live. Not only to live however, but to take care of in all of its wondrous glory. This Earth Day I would like to share with you some tips & tricks to combat one of the ways us humans can improve how we are taking care…
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Podcast: Recap of the West Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics with Addie Dulaney Majnaric, RDN
Welcome and thank you for listening. Addie and I have been traveling. We went back to West Virginia for the West Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Meeting. I was the keynote speaker and did a presentation on reversing lifestyle disease through plant based nutrition. I presented several of our success stories as well…