10 Healthy Swaps for Your Heart at Thanksgiving
Healthy. What a loaded word it is. What does a “heart-healthy” Thanksgiving look like? You might be surprised at my answer. Although I’m a dietitian, when…
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How To Be More Consistent with Heart-Healthy Eating
If you’ve committed to eating more veggies, fish, and beans, but then slipped back into old habits, you’re not alone! Researchers found that the percentage…
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7 Evidence-based Steps to Changing Your Eating Habits
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Do you need to hit the reset button on heart-healthy eating? Do…
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3 Routines That Can Help Make Healthy Eating Happen
(Originally written September 2015, last updated August 2024) As fall approaches, are you itching to return to your regular routines? Summer adventures are grand, but…
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Nourishing the Heart: How Mindful Eating Impacts Cardiovascular Health
Are you familiar with mindful eating? Did you know there are a number of formal studies looking at heart health-related outcomes of mindful eating programs?…
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7 Steps to Jumpstart Heart-Healthy Eating
Have you enjoyed a few more cookies and less greens than usual in the past few weeks? That’s okay! Food traditions are an important part…
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In Defence of New Year’s Aspirations
I’ve always loved the beginning of the year — the whole blank slate, fresh start vibe. Catharine Utzschneider, a professor at the Boston College Sports…
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Heart Healthy Eating… Harder Than I Anticipated!
I received this great comment last week from one of the participants in my online group program, From Surviving to Thriving: The roadmap to eating…
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The Case for Delicious Food After a Heart Event
I had two clients this week who changed their eating habits after a heart-related diagnosis, but were still not quite in the “sweet spot” in…
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Recommitting to Heart Healthy Eating? Start Here.
At some point in December, did you hit a point where you declared, “Enough. I cannot eat another thing.”? Did you feel sluggish, bloated, or regretful…
