It’s not every day that you get to interview an Olympian, so you can only imagine my excitement when professional runner and Canadian Olympian Erin Teschuk agreed to speak with me about FOOD! ( duh). I discovered Erin on social media during Canadian Tire’s #WeAllPlayForCanada campaign for which we were
Are you a nutrition nerd? Have you ever wondered about the national nutrition guidelines in other countries? Just recently I reviewed Japan’s dietary guidelines to look for insights as to why the Japanese live so much longer than we do. I enjoyed the activity so much that I jumped at
“ If you keep writing blogs at this rate you will run out of ideas” I’ve heard that one a few times over the last five years, but hundreds of blog posts and six published books later – I’ve managed to consistently come up with what I believe to be
Today’s article is the ultimate intersection of theory and practice with the singular goal of helping YOU to become a better nutrition counsellor. My colleague Leigh and I have come together to share some incredibly valuable insights on how to better connect with your patient/client and improve your 1-on-1 counselling
This whole ” Andy The RD” thing kicked off two whole years ago. On December 8th 2015 I published ” How To Helped Loved Ones Eat Better” and the rest is history. I wonder if anyone has actually ever even read that post though? I started out with a pretty crappy
With Halloween right around the corner this corny dietitian couldn’t help but write a thematic article that captures the essence of the spookiest holiday of the year. So the question I have for you today is…. When you think of Halloween what comes to mind? For me, when I think
Well… the answer is neither ( you didn’t think I was really going to stigmatize a macronutrient, did you?!) , but now that I have you here I want to draw your attention to the fact that many of the foods that you have been trained to think are “bad”
At a time when wheat and other gluten-containing foods are unfairly demonized I believe it is important to take a step to the side and learn from someone who is living gluten-free not out of choice, but rather as an absolute medical necessity. I am so thrilled to introduce to
The past decade has seen an undeniable growth in public interest in health and nutrition. The explosion in popularity of social media, powerful documentaries and a general increase in public awareness and acceptance of the importance of healthy eating has made it such that nutrition is the topic on the
As much as we’d like to think we do, Dietitian’s don’t always know everything there is to know about every single different type of food out there, nor do we necessarily know that much about how or where it was made or grown. That fact was really hit home for
