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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 [...]

30 01, 2018

Add Some Healthy to Your Super Bowl Spread: Berry Walnut Crisp

By Rosanne Rust|2019-08-27T15:39:48-04:00January 30th, 2018|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Add Some Healthy to Your Super Bowl Spread: Berry Walnut Crisp

Another year, two more "other" teams. I'm not too jazzed about this year's Super Bowl, so I'm not even picking a team. But face it, for many folks, Super Bowl Sunday = Party Food. If you are attending or hosting a Super Bowl Party, here are some quick [...]

23 07, 2017

Does the Non-GMO Label have any Impact on Your Health?

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:42:43-04:00July 23rd, 2017|DASH Diet/Wellness, Family meals, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|2 Comments

This post includes a link to a blog that was sponsored by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, but are expressions of my own. Throughout the course of my 30-year nutrition career, one thing has remained constant: nutrition misinformation. I’ve turned my current communications career into a fact-finding mission [...]

28 02, 2017

5 Simple Steps to March into Better Habits

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:42:18-04:00February 28th, 2017|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Food Facts, Uncategorized, Weight Management|Comments Off on 5 Simple Steps to March into Better Habits

Wow. It's March already. And you know what that means? Registered Dietitians are all hopped up on nutrition tips, now more than ever! It's National Nutrition Month®! via GIPHY Every year, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics uses the month of March as an additional platform to encourage [...]

3 02, 2017

Go Red for Heart Health

By Rosanne Rust|2023-07-31T11:43:36-04:00February 3rd, 2017|DASH Diet/Wellness, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Go Red for Heart Health

Today is Go Red for Women® day. What's that all about? It's an awareness campaign sponsored by the American Heart Association that encourages women to monitor their health, eat well and exercise. Cardiovascular deaths in women hit about 500,000 per year. The campaign aims to dispel the myths [...]

24 01, 2017

The Best Diet is the Healthiest One that You Can Swallow

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:40:57-04:00January 24th, 2017|DASH Diet/Wellness, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|1 Comment

I just arrived home from a conference about some of the hottest topics in nutrition right now: Food safety/allergy, dietary fat and heart health (omega-3 fatty acids, dairy fat), food intolerance (gluten, wheat, sugars, dairy protein), plant-based proteins, diet and irritable bowel disease, gut health and the microbiome, [...]

16 01, 2017

Stop Eating Plain, Boring Vegetables

By Rosanne Rust|2023-03-21T12:41:54-04:00January 16th, 2017|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized, Weight Management|Comments Off on Stop Eating Plain, Boring Vegetables

By now, you've heard that DASH Diet is voted one of the best diet plan to follow. I'm talking lifestyle here. For life. Just about any sensible diet plan, that's supported by science, will be recommending you add more vegetables to your diet. You know you are supposed [...]

20 12, 2016

Incorporating More Grains into Your Diet: Quinoa, Sorghum, and More

By Rosanne Rust|2023-05-26T11:44:38-04:00December 20th, 2016|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Family meals, Food Facts, Heart Disease, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Incorporating More Grains into Your Diet: Quinoa, Sorghum, and More

Quinoa Cake with Mini Crab Cakes Whole grains are part of a healthy diet, and part of a DASH Diet eating plan. They can provide fiber, which can lower cholesterol and blood lipids (fats). Fiber also helps keep you full longer and helps with blood sugar [...]