Monthly Insights
Beyond the trend: the science of hormone syncing diets (July 2026)
If you’ve scrolled through online wellness platforms recently, you have likely encountered a dietary trend promising to calm the physiological storms of a woman’s body: “hormone syncing,” often popularized alongside the practice of “seed cycling.” Driven largely by women navigating the unpredictable shifts of perimenopause, as well as those meticulously tracking their menstrual cycles, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]