Nutritional Advice

Ah, salt. The tasty ingredient that gets so much hate. Salt gets a bad rap for raising blood pressure, causing hypertension, and swelling. Might as well lump salt in with butter, bacon, and eggs [...]

Oh how I love to write about controversial nutrition topics. I think it’s so interesting that there are so many debates in the world of food, one of the hottest ones being whether or not to eat [...]

When I first learned about keto, horror stories about hair falling out and loss of appetite scared me from ever wanting to try it. I learned about people feeling awful on it and women suffering [...]

I ditched grains and I’ll never look back! Except for that one time when it was Cinco de Mayo and I ate unlimited tacos for a fundraiser…but no looking back after that! I’ve been properly grain [...]

What is Maca? Maca is my new best friend. I will name my first born after maca. Maca is a root native to Peru that has been used as a tonic for thousands of years. It is considered an adaptogen, [...]

Detox! The word itself sounds scary and unpleasant. Perhaps it triggers thoughts of green juices that taste like grass, laxatives that make it hard to venture far from the bathroom, and powders [...]

Girl, let’s be real. Periods can be a real nuisance. Many women experience cramps, bloating, fatigue, cravings, and irritability. But periods can also be a beautiful thing that we can take [...]

Soy is such a controversial topic in the world of nutrition. People are either for it or against it and I’ve found myself in many debates over this particular bean! Soy has been blamed for [...]

I hear talk about food everywhere. Of course I do, I’m a nutritionist. But outside of that, even when I’m not trying to talk (or think) about food, it almost always comes up. At work in the break [...]

I think it’s fair to say that I’ve dabbled in different ways of eating: vegan, vegetarian, raw food, Paleo, and, of course, the pasta/ramen diet in college. In subscribing to and prescribing [...]