Celery juice has become increasingly popular by influencer “Medical Medium”. Most celery juice claims are unsubstantiated.Pin it here. Celery juice is flying off grocery shelves at record speeds. The number of text messages I’ve gotten from educated friends asking if celery juice is nature’s new elixir is on another level; I truly don’t think I’ve …
Nutrition
How I Trained for a Marathon While Breastfeeding | Exercise & Breastfeeding
Here I’m answering how I maintained milk supply while training for a marathon and race day breastfeeding logistics. We also talk in general about keeping milk supply with heavy exercise. Pin it here. Recently I ran the Rock ‘n Roll Marathon in Savannah, Georgia, at 7 months (+3 weeks!) postpartum while exclusively breastfeeding. I’ve gotten …
Baby-Led Weaning | Six Month Baby Feeding Update, Sample Baby Meal Ideas & Schedule
In this blog post I discuss baby-led weaning and updates in feeding since my first blog post about introducing solids here. Today Baby T turns 7 months old! I’ve been posting a fair amount about her eating on my IG stories and was asked to give an update of where we are now. A lot …
Personal Diet Labels: Why Does Everybody Have to “Be” Something?
Labeling ourselves by what we eat is all the rage. How did we get here? I’ve been a dietitian for 4 years and formally studying nutrition for 11 years. Backtrack further to the first “food rules” I followed as a 12 year old gymnast and later my first official low-carb diet in ninth grade. We’re …
Soylent Review | Product Review
Soylent is a beverage meal alternative that claims to meet all nutritional needs. Soylent. Have you heard it? It’s the stuff of millenials veins for anyone working in finance, engineering, grad or medical school, tech, software development, design, self-proclaimed lifehackers or [insert anything trendy in any trendy city]. Born and bred in Silicon Valley itself, …
The Whole30 Program: Whole30 Diet Review from a Dietitian
As I’ve been making my way through diet reviews, I thought I’d circle back to the Whole30 diet since it’s been a pretty long-standing, popular diet. Whole30 Diet Review What is Whole30? Whole30 is a 30-day, elimination diet that emphasizes whole, unprocessed foods. That said, it arbitrarily (sorry) eliminates a number of highly nutritious, whole, …
