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26 01, 2020

5 easy ways to incorporate fish twice a week into your diet

By Rosanne Rust|2020-01-15T15:58:42-05:00January 26th, 2020|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Food Facts, Healthy Aging, Heart Disease, Wellness|Comments Off on 5 easy ways to incorporate fish twice a week into your diet

You've heard fish is part of a healthy diet, but are you eating it regularly? What's stopping you? The smell? The taste? Bad experiences with poorly prepared fish? Or do you just 'think' you don't like it and haven't really tried different varieties? Maybe you love canned tuna? [...]

1 05, 2019

May is High Blood Pressure Month – Get Checked!

By Rosanne Rust|2019-08-27T15:52:04-04:00May 1st, 2019|DASH Diet/Wellness, Health Professionals, Healthy Aging, Heart Disease, Uncategorized, Wellness|Comments Off on May is High Blood Pressure Month – Get Checked!

May is High Blood Pressure Month - a time to bring awareness to your blood pressure. Have you had yours checked? It's normal for our blood pressure to fluctuate during the day, but consistent high blood pressure (called Hypertension) causes wear and tear on your heart, kidneys and [...]

27 02, 2019

Snacking Can Be Heart-Healthy

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:43:51-04:00February 27th, 2019|DASH Diet/Wellness, Food Facts, Food Trends, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Snacking Can Be Heart-Healthy

It's Heart Month, and it's a good idea to gradually add more heart-healthy foods to your overall diet. If you are trying to follow a DASH Diet plan and lifestyle, one strategy is to choose well at snack time. Research about how consumers eat is showing that snacks [...]

18 02, 2019

The Growing Probiotic Market

By Rosanne Rust|2023-06-10T11:29:17-04:00February 18th, 2019|Food Facts, Health Professionals, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Growing Probiotic Market

Probiotics. You've probably heard about them. People toss the term around in a positive context: "You need probiotics. They're good for your gut!" But what are they? What types of probiotics are out there, how do they work, and what should you be looking for? I recently attended [...]

1 05, 2018

Take the DASH Diet Challenge

By Rosanne Rust|2020-10-14T13:50:09-04:00May 1st, 2018|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Heart Disease, Uncategorized, Weight Management|Comments Off on Take the DASH Diet Challenge

May is High Blood Pressure Month. If you have hypertension (high blood pressure), I encourage you to adopt the DASH Diet lifestyle.  DASH Diet  has been shown to lower blood pressure, and is also linked to better brain health, good diabetes control, less depression, and weight control. While you may [...]

23 02, 2018

Grains: The Misunderstood Food Group

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:43:05-04:00February 23rd, 2018|DASH Diet/Wellness, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized, Weight Management|1 Comment

I attended a food and nutrition conference in which Julie Miller Jones spoke about popular weight loss diets in a session sponsored by the Grain Foods Foundation, but the following thoughts and opinions are my own. With the popularity of the "keto diet" fad and other low carbohydrate [...]

1 02, 2018

Down and Dirty for Heart Month

By Rosanne Rust|2023-12-19T14:36:21-05:00February 1st, 2018|DASH Diet/Wellness, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Down and Dirty for Heart Month

You hear a lot in the news about "eating clean", going "plant-based", and avoiding "chemicals" in your diet. Well, here's the thing, food IS chemistry. We eat chemicals. We are made of chemicals. They aren't all scary. The ingredients here may seem scary, but they aren't. This [...]

22 01, 2018

A Fresh Look at Fish

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:43:03-04:00January 22nd, 2018|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Food Facts, Heart Disease|Comments Off on A Fresh Look at Fish

I was invited to attend a food and nutrition conference this month in Lisbon, Portugal (part of my travel was sponsored), and was excited to learn more about current research on the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids and including seafood in the diet. Lisbon is a beautiful city by [...]