This month’s Recipe Redux is lunch ideas! I currently have a nutrition intern, Laura, with me and I let her develop this recipe from idea to photographs! She did an amazing job, and ended up learning a lot, as she will tell you below. The result was incredible! I got her to write up the…
As I sit on my back porch on the sun and write this post, I’m just thrilled that Spring has finally arrived! Winter in Toronto is just as crappy as you can imagine, and everyone tends to hibernate until the sun comes out in April. You can always tell who’s Canadian – we’re the ones…
Anytime I see a new diet or weight-loss scheme becoming popular, I assume it’s my duty as an RD to check it out and report back to you guys about whether or not it’s legit. A lot of these are pretty crazy looking and suspicious, especially when they promise to ‘cleanse’, ‘detox’, and generally make…
I’m not sure what’s going on with the Internet lately, but there’s some really crazy stuff coming out on there. One of the latest ‘trends’ – and I use quotations on that word only because I think there’s a limited number of people who would actually try this – is eating avocado seeds. And because…
I originally published this on the Huffington Post on March 31st, 2016. It’s linked to ovarian cancer. It’s only for baby cows. We aren’t meant to digest cow’s milk. It’s linked to bone loss. It’s pretty easy to find anti-dairy sentiment on the internet, and recently I was asked by a colleague if I…
Since I launched my diet review series, I think I’ve gotten the most requests for a review of a product line called AdvoCare. It seems people are super curious about if the products are really worth the money (and if they actually work). In my research about this product, I noticed that AdvoCare is actually…