Lifestyle Articles

By: Robyn Flipse, MS, MA, RDN -- Research on regular users of low-calorie sweeteners has found they have better diets than nonusers. If that isn’t incentive to use them, I don’t know what is! Of course, adding a low-calorie sweetener to your coffee isn’t all it takes to become healthy and thin,...

By Carolyn Reynaud, MS, RD, LD -- According to the WHO, currently 422 million people in the world have diabetes. What’s more staggering is that the WHO projects that number is likely to double in the next 20 years. In 2012, official numbers from a WHO report suggested that 1.5 million...

By Carolyn Reynaud, MS, RD, LD -- I have a lot of passion for nutrition, but one area I am especially fervent about is food safety. Anyone who has eaten with me might even venture to say I’m borderline obsessive about the issue (wink, wink.) I have lived dangerously; eaten pizza...

By: Melissa Joy Dobbins, MS, RDN, CDE -- Spring has arrived and that means it’s time for some spring cleaning! You might be thinking about cleaning out your closets – swapping out your cold weather clothes for lighter spring and summer items – or cleaning up your yard and planting...

“Cooking for one is just plain boring,” an elderly patient recently told me.  Day in, day out, she’s dining alone and tired of eating “the same old thing.” Old, young, or somewhere in between, many adults are in a living situation that requires cooking just for themselves.  Some people resort...

By: Robyn Flipse, MS. MA, RDN -- Consultant to the Calorie Control Council The global population is aging at a faster rate than ever before in human history. Right now the number of people throughout the world over the age of 65 makes up 8.5 percent of the total population,...