General Nutrition
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Leyla Weighs In: Grocery shopping tips
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
It’s National Nutrition Month, and it’s all about eating better! Now that you’ve arranged your kitchen, pantry and refrigerator for ease of use for food preparation and cooking, let’s tackle grocery shopping. The lament I hear from most people is lack of…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: My go-to chicken soup
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
This isn’t a soup I make only when I feel like I’m coming down with a cold or flu, it’s hands down, my favorite chicken soup. My eldest auntie taught me that wings impart the best flavor. She wasn’t kidding!…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: Health or disease? You choose
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
March is National Nutrition Month. Health or Disease? YOU choose. Believe it. In many cases, you have a choice. The state of our health care system today doesn’t promote health. It is more like a “sick care system” in my opinion,…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: American Heart Association is still saturated fat phobic
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
Despite so much scientific evidence absolving saturated fats as dangerous to the heart and promoting heart disease, the AHA is still having trouble discerning fact from fallacy when it comes to informing the public about health. As Dr. Hoffman referred to in…read more
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Ask Leyla: Why is my arachidonic acid so high?
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
Arachidonic acid is a pro-inflammatory fatty acid responsible for the production of series 2 prostaglandins, a hallmark of inflammation associated with conditions such as asthma and arthritis, to name a couple. However, arachidonic acid is not altogether a foe. It…read more
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Winter potpourri: Choline, live fast/die young, processed meats, and toxic fish
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Choline: Little-known nutritional fact—according to a recent article in Science Daily, it’s estimated that more than 90% of Americans are not meeting the recommended daily intake of choline. We know that choline is a dietary precursor to acetylcholine, an essential neurotransmitter. In fact, certain dementia…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: My go-to roast chicken
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
I come home from work on a typical weekday and pull out of the fridge an approximately 3 ½ pound organic chicken I purchased the other day with my other groceries—salad greens and other veggies to roast in the oven…read more
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It’s 2023 and dietary recommendations continue to disappoint
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
First the good news: According to a Harvard study released this month, a variety of healthy diet patterns dramatically reduced the risk of dying from a multitude of diseases. The study was huge—comprising over 75,000 women and 44,000 men followed for 35…read more
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Tame your sugar cravings in ‘23
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Undoubtedly, one of this year’s most popular New Year’s resolutions will be to “cut down on sugar”—especially after the non-stop potlatch most of us have experienced in December. But it’s not easy, because one of the most fundamental hard-wired human…read more
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