Tag: nutrition
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Do you think about protein?
Dietitian Addie here popping in to share the topic for this month’s dietary education zoom session I held with our members this week. This month we began a series on PROTEIN… a macronutrient quite high on the popularity scale. A component of our food that is necessary for many functions within the body. Protein aids…
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A Christmas ad that has this plant based dietitian feeling all the feels…do you know your “WHY?”
Health… it’s so much more than the “numbers” that we shoot for. As a clinical and lifestyle dietitian, I look at the “numbers” my patients get back as factors determining improvement to better health – blood work, blood pressure, glucose checks, weight loss, etc. But I didn’t become a dietitian so that people could have…
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Where do you get your motivation from?
Tuesday Tips from your plant strong Dietitian, Addie D Majnaric! You have to be motivated to accomplish a goal, especially the goal of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle change. You have to have something that sparks your fire on days when you are feeling less than your best or discouraged about your progress. While it…
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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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Are you focused on achieving health or a number?
A Thursday Thought from Dietitian Addie Focusing on either maintaining or improving your current health is FABULOUS! Virtual HIGH-FIVE to you for noting the importance of taking care of your body by both what you eat and how you move! But are you truly looking at health changes or are you just a slave to…
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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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Podcast: Meet Our Wellness Tribe
Welcome and Thank you for listening. Do you have a wellness tribe? How do you maintain your health? Do you have separate groups who you eat with and others that you exercise with? Do your communities overlap? I will discuss this topic and much more on today’s episode. We had our second holiday potluck with…
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Podcast: Navigating Thanksgiving with Addie Dulaney Majnaric, RDN
Welcome and Thank you for listening. Next week is Thanksgiving and chances are you will be asked to cook or eat food that is not plant based. It may be a vegetable that is prepared with dairy or meat or oil. You may be asked why you do not want to eat turkey or other…
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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…