The Blog
Open Wide: May 2017 Edition
These days, everyone from professor/author/food policy advocate Marion Nestle to my grad school classmates to my dietetic colleagues inspires me. In addition to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, I have also been a student member of its many Dietetics Practice...
A Salad a Day
Eating healthfully does not have to be a difficult feat of strength and will. In fact, I encourage you to create a simple salad every day based solely on ingredients you have in your house or can easily grab at your local grocer and dump into a bowl. I have been...
Lead the Way to a Healthy Office Culture
You can still maintain a healthy, nutritious lifestyle at your office if you plan accordingly, make small changes every day, and learn how to work your workday to your advantage. Sometimes it seems we spend all of our time at work, and our eating habits...
Tending the Farm
I started the DishWithDina blog back in April 2003 (Happy Blogiversary to me!) as a way to remember all the yummy places I went to after I moved to New York City from New Jersey. In the transition from one platform to another and then integrating everything into this...
Every Kid Healthy
The percentage of children with obesity nationwide has more than tripled since the 1970s1. The current average diet for the majority of nationwide kids consists of chips, candy, and soda, along with a not-so-nutritious school lunch and frequent fast food dinners....
Things We Don’t Talk About at the Table
Ah, poop. If there's one thing I've learned in the last four-plus years of studying nutrition, it's that Registered Dietitians loooooove to talk about poop. And why shouldn't we? It's the one way to determine how healthy our clients' foods are, whether they're getting...