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Flaxseeds and flaxseed meal have a lot to offer nutritionally. They’re a wonderful source of plant-based omega-3 unsaturated fats as well as dietary fiber, which may protect against cardiovascular disease—partly by helping to reduce your total and LDL cholesterol and your blood pressure. The fiber in flaxseeds can also help keep you regular while its […]

Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN The advice to avoid eating at night is so common—usually in the context of dieting and weight loss—that it’s practically become gospel. But is it true that eating at night causes weight gain or harms health? Let’s take a look at the research.. More than a decade ago, a study did […]

Every year, we see advertisements promoting making resolutions to join a gym or start a diet, as well as many other messages centered around food and movement. But resolutions often start strong only to fall by the wayside by February. Instead of falling into the resolution trap, have you considered working on goals that can […]

As a registered dietitian who practices with a non-diet approach, I teach my clients how to approach food, movement and their bodies in a judgement-free way. This is what the holidays mean to me when speaking with individuals. HOW you make choices about your food. Are you conscious, or unconscious when making choices at a […]

Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN Social media, podcasts and the internet can be a mixed bag of nutrition and health information, and one questionable bit that’s been making the rounds for a while is that seed oils—cooking and salad oils pressed from canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, rice bran, sunflower, safflower and soy—make you sick, causing everything […]

By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN The dietary supplement industry brings in billions of dollars each year. If you pop a daily multivitamin, take supplemental forms of single nutrients, or reach for specialized supplements targeted at a specific health concern or your stage of life, odds are its because you want to improve your health or […]

By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN Clean eating has been a full-fledged trend for almost 20 years, emerging in the women’s bodybuilding world before expanding into nutrition and wellness spaces, despite the lack of an official “clean eating” definition or diet.  One person might define clean eating as trying to eat more nutrient-dense “whole” foods while […]

Do your busy weeks get in the way of thinking about what you want to eat? Do you find yourself making impulsive food choices because you waited too long to eat and then ended up extremely hungry? Here’s a question: Have you ever thought about preparing your meals for the week? Food planning and prepping […]

I remember when I was a dietetics student, and my professor and mentor Dr. Christine Hamilton Smith lectured on Sjögren’s Syndrome. I also remember seeing questions about this condition when I was studying for and taking the RD examination. Some 28 years later, I’m not only reflecting on the number of patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome […]

By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN The thing about stereotypes is that there’s usually a nugget of truth in there somewhere. But taking what’s true for a few and generalizing it to everyone is still a problem, no matter what we’re talking about. So right now, let’s talk about eating disorders.  Even though we should know […]