Each year, US News and World Report does an annual review of diets to determine which are the "Best Diets". They enlist a panel of medical and nutrition experts to review popular diet plans and eating styles and come up with a “best” list. The Panel [...]
My coauthors and I are excited to bring you this excellent resource for heart-healthy living. It's on bookshelves and available online at a bookstore near you: DASH Diet For Dummies®, 2nd edition. It's About Healthy Living DASH isn't a fad diet. It's about meal planning and lifestyle change. [...]
The news is in. For a decade, the DASH Diet has been ranked as one of the top 3 diets by an expert panel at US News and World Report (#1 for eight years, and #2 the last two). It tied with a Flexitarian Diet (4/.1/5), and was [...]
Happy New Year! The years seem to go by so quickly, right? While you may find yourself reflective every January, please don't stress over any need to become a whole new you. December can be rough. The holidays are stressful. They are a lot of work, there's a [...]
Best Diet. Seven years in a row. Do you think this suggests you should learn more and try it? I do! US News and World Report has once again ranked the DASH Diet as the Best Diet. Despite being ranked as the Best Overall Diet for 7 years in [...]
Bean Salad Ingredients It's been a big year in food and nutrition news, and it's only mid-January. On December 29 (technically last year) PBS aired Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food documentary. Then on January 7th, the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released. And a few [...]
freedigitalphotos.net If you read my blog here or other articles that I've written over the years, or listened to my lectures, you'll know that I am a pretty reasonable dietitian. Strict diets, or one-size-fits-all meal plans simply don't work. They sure wouldn't work for me, and [...]