Do you sit down to dinner frazzled and sweating, or fresh and relaxed? I must admit, I’m usually closer to the latter than the former! I do a meal plan every week, but I struggle to carve out time early in the day (or week) to prep our evening meals.…
If you’re like many people who’ve recently had a heart attack or came close to it, you may be asking “Why did this happen to me, of all people?” You were just going about your life, reasonably healthy and boom, this happens, seemingly out of nowhere. The people I most…
Confession time: We often have a box of frozen breaded fish on hand. It ends up on the dinner table a couple of times a month. You too? Of course I KNOW it isn’t as healthy as unbreaded fish. I KNOW you can do it yourself. I know you can…
Do you drink unfiltered coffee? I’m still kind of a coffee novice, after starting the habit a few years ago, so after seeing “unfiltered coffee” listed as a cholesterol raising food in this review paper last week, I had to look it up! The authors mentioned “Scandinavian style boiled coffee,” but it turns…
I recently wrote a post reviewing the research around cheese and heart disease, cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. The bottom line was that cheese appears to have a neutral or perhaps slightly positive impact on heart health. People rejoiced in the streets. Cheese was devoured without guilt. Yay! But, a few people asked, could I be eating…
I spent the past couple of weeks researching and writing a blog post about cheese, so I was in the mood to cook with it even more than usual. I put together this pasta last week and it was so tasty and easy, I wanted to share it with you…
I polled members of my free Facebook group , and cheese came out the winner of the “What blog topic would you most like to see?” question. So if you could use some clarity around this loved but complicated food, you’re not alone! Cheese is a good source of protein and calcium, right? (Plus…
Editor’s note: I’m excited to share this guest post, from Jessica Dugan, a dietetic student at the University of Alberta. Thanks to Jessica for researching this and sharing with us. Chia, pepita (aka pumpkin), hemp, sesame, sunflower. So many seeds and so many nutrients, but you can only eat so…