by Deborah Hanyon, MPH, RDN, ACE-CHC | Jun 20, 2022 | Cooking Tips, Nutrition and Health
Who doesn't love a BLT? The classic bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich never goes out of style and is a perennial favorite with bacon lovers. Well now's your chance to give your BLT sandwich a healthy makeover! So, you love bacon, but you are also trying to watch your...
by Deborah Hanyon, MPH, RDN, ACE-CHC | Jun 17, 2022 | Cooking Tips, Nutrition and Health
Tacos are all the rage these days, and for good reason. You can even find t-shirts that express your love of tacos to the world. And while the American tradition of boxed taco kits featuring a crunchy hard corn tortilla shell lives on, these days the taco bar has been...
by Deborah Hanyon, MPH, RDN, ACE-CHC | Jun 13, 2022 | Cooking Tips, Nutrition and Health
Healthy Recipe Makeover: Pizza Pizza is a lot of fun, but we all know it's a food to avoid if you're looking to shape up, drop some pounds and improve your cardiovascular health. Ordering pizza from the local Italian restaurant is always tempting. But now you're...
by Deborah Hanyon, MPH, RDN, ACE-CHC | Jun 10, 2022 | Cooking Tips, Nutrition and Health
Healthy Recipe Makeover: “Grand Slam” Breakfast with Eggs, Pancakes, and Breakfast Meat Every once in a while, you've just got to have one of those big breakfasts. But that seems pretty impossible when you're trying to eat healthy and work on weight loss...
by Deborah Hanyon, MPH, RDN, ACE-CHC | Jun 3, 2022 | Cooking Tips, Nutrition and Health
Now that you know which foods are essential to good health (see previous post here), you can start thinking in terms of healthy recipe makeovers. You've heard the resident health nut or dieting junkie blasting traditional comfort food favorites like mac and cheese and...
by Deborah Hanyon, MPH, RDN, ACE-CHC | May 31, 2022 | Cooking Tips, Nutrition and Health
The Story on Carbs and Weight Loss You may have heard that weight loss works better when you lower carb intake. This may be true to some extent but know that your body needs carbohydrates. Children burn off a lot of energy doing things like growing, running around,...
