Monthly Insights
New Years Resolutions: To Make, or Not to Make? (January 2026)
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 […]
What do the HOLIDAYS mean to you? (December 2025)
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 […]
Are Seed Oils Bad For You? (November 2025)
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 […]
Do you need to take dietary supplements? (October 2025)
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 […]
Do we need to eat cleaner? Clearing up the confusion (September 2025)
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 […]
Food Planning and Prep 101 (August 2025)
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 […]
Understanding Sjögren’s Syndrome (July 2025)
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 […]
Yes, males get eating disorders, too (June 2025)
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 […]
How to eat and move for healthy bones (May 2025)
By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN It’s estimated that 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, and another 44 million have low bone density, according to the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF). While 1 in 2 women and up to 1 in 4 men will break a bone due to osteoporosis after age 50, the stage is […]
Attitude is everything. (April 2025)
When I was a child, I watched my father struggle with heart issues and other medical conditions. He was ahead of his time, always striving to meditate and be positive. He would attend yoga and meditation retreats—being the only man on these retreats—and I watched him work on calming down his “inner critic” by learning […]
Why does body positivity feel hard? (March 2025)
Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN What thoughts come to mind when you hear or read the words “body positivity? Maybe, “It’s wonderful! It changed my life!” or “It’s an idea I’m working on incorporating into my life…and some days are better than others” or “Feel positive about THIS body? Yeah, right” or even, “If I feel […]