Elevate Your Holiday Table with Roasted Purple Sweet Potatoes!
Elevate Your Holiday Table with Roasted Purple Sweet PotatoesThe holiday season is all about creating unforgettable moments and delicious feasts that bring families and friends together. While tradition often rules the holiday table, it's also an opportunity to...
Fall into Healthy Eating: Nutrient-Rich Foods for October
Fall Into Healthy Eating: Nutrient-Rich Foods for OctoberAs the leaves change and the air turns crisp, October welcomes us with a bounty of delicious and nutritious foods. Embracing the flavors and produce of the season can be a fantastic way to nourish your body. In...
End the summer with new routines!
4 Tips for Back-to-School (end of summer) RoutinesAre you ready for your post-summer routine? It’s back to school time! Whether that means for the kiddos or for yourself, we all know it’s a time when we start to get more serious about eating right and getting into a...
5 Tips for Healthy Vacationing
5 Tips for Healthy VacationingEveryone enjoys a fun vacation! Vacationing can provide a boost to your mental health by helping you to de-stress, relax, and enjoy a change of scenery. While vacationing can provide health benefits, it can derail you in other areas of...
Low FODMAP Shrimp and Black Rice Summer Salad
Low FODMAP Shrimp and Black Rice Summer Salad Enjoy fabulous flavor and a gorgeous color in this light, balanced, nutrient-rich, low FODMAP entrée! What is a low FODMAP diet? FODMAP stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and...
Best-Bet Breakfast Ideas
Best-Bet Breakfast Ideas Ahhh, breakfast—so many choices, so little time. Why is the first and fastest meal of the day so often the hardest to get right? Add to the mix factors like intermittent fasting, diabetes, and plain-old picky palates, and the question of what...
Can I Really Boost My Metabolism?
Can I Really Boost My Metabolism?Metabolism is a trending topic around fitness and weight loss, and our LWell dietitians frequently get asked, “How can I boost my metabolism?” Metabolism is a process whereby your body converts food and drinks into energy. Even when...
Nutritional Yeast: The Original “Vegan Cheese”
Nutritional Yeast: The Original “Vegan Cheese” Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Cheese. The stuff food dreams are made of. But for those following a vegan diet, or are lactose intolerant, what else can satisfy a cheese tooth? Hello, nutritional yeast! Dedicated vegans have relied...
Mindful Eating Musts for Weight Loss
Mindful Eating “Musts” for Weight Loss “Mindful eating is a fundamental practice for health and wellness,” says Carey Nadal, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Specialist in Renal Nutrition at LWell. “It helps to establish an awareness of the...
Sleep Better Tonight: 5 Strategies
Sleep Better Tonight: 5 Strategies By Kate Langbehn, MS, RD Perhaps one of the most overlooked, yet very important aspects of health is sleep. Most adults require between 7-9 hours of nightly sleep. However, work schedules, day-to-day stressors, a disruptive...
Health at Every Size
Health at Every SizeThere’s a misconception that the less you weigh the healthier you must be—but that’s a dangerous assumption. Your size and shape does not necessarily determine your state of health. On the other side of the coin, while it’s great to be body...
Flexible Dieting for Macronutrients
Flexible Dieting for MacronutrientsFlexible dieting is a nutritional concept that involves monitoring your macronutrient intake to achieve a certain body composition and meet a performance goal. This type of diet can be very beneficial if you have specific...
Mealtime Strategies for Healthy Families
Mealtime Strategies for Healthy Families Many families struggle to eat together regularly; whether it’s due to busy work and activities schedules, managing picky eaters, or just a plain lack of time. A 2018 meta-analysis found a significant relationship between...
A Change of Mind: Using CBT for Successful Weight Loss
A Change of Mind: Using CBT for Successful Weight LossWhen it comes to trying to change your diet and reach your health goals, you may feel like you already know what you should be doing (or not doing), but you just lack the motivation or willpower to follow through....
Neurodiversity Nutrition Explained
Neurodiversity Nutrition If you struggle with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), you may find it very difficult to focus and prioritize. No wonder then ADHD can take over in the kitchen. Meal planning and cooking can be a challenge for people affected by...
Energy and Aging
Energy and AgingDo you struggle with fatigue? A lack of energy (and accelerated aging) can result from a few different factors. The primary driver of fatigue is inflammation, and it mainly comes from mitochondria damage. Mitochondria damage is when the cells do not...
Eating Disorders: LWell Can Help
Eating Disorders: LWell Can Help Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by disturbances in behaviors, thoughts and attitudes toward eating, and body weight or shape. There are many types of eating disorders, but the two most common include anorexia nervosa and...
Celiacs: Beware Xanthan Gum!
Celiacs: Beware Xanthan Gum!Xanthan gum is a popular food additive that’s commonly added to foods as a thickener or stabilizer. It is also found in many personal care items such as creams, toothpastes, shampoos and lotions. Xanthan gum is also found in many...
Two Common Nutrition and Fitness Myths Debunked
Two Common Nutrition and Fitness Myths DebunkedMyth #1: I have to consume protein after working out. A common misconception is that you must consume protein as soon as you’re done with a workout, to take advantage of the “anabolic window.” The anabolic window is the...
Understanding the Links Between Nutrition and Depression
The Link Between Nutrition and DepressionOur mental health can have a big impact on how we eat. Kristin Walsh, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at LWell, says a compromised state of mental health “may increase likelihood of poor nutrition, lack of meal...
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