What’s on your plate? Long Island Registered Dietitian Explains Moderately Processed and Ultra-processed foods
As a Registered Dietitian, I work to empower people to feel confident about their choices, selecting the healthiest options and enjoying what they eat. As a continuation from the previous blog, I want to explain moderately processed…
What’s on your plate? Long Island Registered Dietitian Discusses the Difference Between Whole Foods and Processed Foods
Whole Foods are an important component of every healthy diet. Simply stated, whole foods are foods that still look the way they did when they grew in nature - or very similar to it- remaining close to their original state. More…
Long Island Integrative Nutrition Therapist’s Plant-Based Diet Recommendations for Covid-19: What You Can Do to Improve Immune Function
We are all in the midst of a global pandemic, yet public health advisers have failed to provide any of the evidence-based nutrition or lifestyle related recommendations widely acknowledged as essential for the optimal function of human physiology.…
Why People See a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Registered dietitians are experts in food, nutrition as well as the role of nutrients in promoting health. They advise people on optimizing intake in order to lead a healthy lifestyle or to achieve a specific health-related goal.
For those…
How Nutrition Affects Brain Health from Long Island Certified Nutritionist: Can you boost your brain power?
We all have concerns over loss of cognitive function, particularly descent into Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Many studies suggest that maintaining cognitive health, as well as slowing and even preventing cognitive decline, dementia,…
Nutrition Tips for Beautiful Skin
Want your face to glow? Food can boost your skin health.
When you nourish your body with food to promote health, you also nourish your skin. By selecting certain foods, you can turn around your tired-looking skin. Here’s how to…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Can Diet Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
As the American population ages, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease also continues to rise. Recent studies suggest diet may play a role in its prevention or delayed onset.
A plant based eating…
The Human Microbiome
Each human body has a unique array of microorganisms, collectively called the “microbiota”. There may be 1000 different species and over 100-fold more genes that are in the human genome. Studies have demonstrated a symbiotic…
The Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Your Diet
You may have heard that omega-3 fatty acids are good for your health, but did you know that they can actually help you lower your risk of death? According to a study that was recently featured in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology,…
Saturated Fat: What is the True Story? Part 2: Answers and Conclusion
We have the answers to these questions, kept in the shadows impressively well by the peddlers of pepperoni and bacon.
The range of saturated fat intake examined is pretty narrow. In the first meta-analysis, the top and bottom…