Michelle Stewart
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Michelle J. Stewart MPH, RDLD/N, CDE is an experienced food and nutrition communication expert specializing in wellness with a holistic approach to living your best life. Michelle has been leading the way to a healthier you for more than 25 years. She is zealous when it comes to wellness from the inside out and empowering whomever she comes in contact with to take charge of their health and wellbeing. Her motto is "EAT LESS MOVE MORE" Sign up for her Free Report 10 Weight Loss Tips for Life when you visit http://thenutritionplanner.com
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What's Cooking for Multigenerational Meals?
Pulling together the household menu can be challenging especially if the household includes helicopter parents, boomerang kids, doting grandparents and other folks on occasion. Everyone wants their fav foods, seasoned to their liking and cooked a certain way.
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Surrounded By Food, Supermarket Dietitians to the Rescue
As a registered dietitia I'm juggling a few things each day. But for every one of the tasks and projects I'm working on, I focus on sharing as much info as I can, advocating wise nutrition choices and living well. The dictionary defines dietitian as a person whose job is to give people advice about what to eat in order to be healthy. We provide advice, counsel and encouragement in a variety of venues.
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Energy Boosting Help to Fight Fatigue
With the holiday season right around the corner I am starting to get lots of questions about how to squeeze a few more activities into the day. My number one answer is to remind those inquiring minds that I am not the dietitian with a magic wand. I do however share advice on keeping one's energy up, making wise food choices and striving for a healthy lifestyle. All three of these advisories will go a long way toward feeling good and energized when days are hectic.
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Taking A Look at Trans Fats
Doughnut-do-not; popco -push away and cake mix minus. All of these are foods that can include trans fats. Now some of you may agree "Oh yes I enjoy all of them and the fat transfers to me! "Not-trans fat is made by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil through a process called hydrogenation which makes the oil easier to blend with other ingredients and less likely to spoil. The use of trans fats in the production of commercial food products helps foods stay fresh longer, have a longer shelf life and have a less greasy feel. They are known to enhance flavor and texture.
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Emotional Well-Being Is Key to Healthy You
In our daily quest for the well-being lifestyle, we often overlook our emotional well-being. In counseling my clients, I often remind them to step back and enjoy the moment. With the techie advantages we enjoy we are always on----Flex hours at work give us the ability to start earlier and work later; email synced with mobile devices allows us to be connected around the clock, every single day. And let's get real, sometimes we want to take a time out--- we need to take a time out and unplug from the continuous connections for our emotional well-being.
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Plan Ahead to Survive House Arrest
We all started out with big plans, a to-do list and resolutions for the New Year. We are a few days into the year and one thing that is constant year to year is plans may have to change. And that is what so many of my clients are looking at as Mother Nature is spreading cold and in some areas frigid temperatures, and precipitation during the first week of the year. Somehow when those winds of winter blow our way, we like to ease into it gradually. Ma Nature usually has a different idea.
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Well-Being Choices Help Boost Energy
There is always something somewhere in print, online, radio or television about the most recent diet. You'll see it more often the first of the year and in the Spring as folks focus on getting fit when the layers of clothes come off as the temperature rises. You know my mantra "there is not one food that is all good or all bad for you." I advocate for you to choose a healthy lifestyle which includes eating a variety of foods, plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole-grains, lentils and legumes, stay hydrated, and exercise regularly.
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Go Red for Good Health
The month is about love and there is no better way to say I love you than to share heart healthy insight with friends, family and loved ones. For so many years when the topic was heart health most of the info was based on what the medical profession knew about men and their heart health. Fortunately health professionals have revised their outlook and there is now research and data available on women. We've learned that it is important for women to know the risk factors.
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Indulge in Chocolate and Red Wine for Heart Health
I've had a few calls from my chocoholic clients asking "how much chocolate can I eat." People are consuming chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and before, during and after dinner, thanks to the creativity of the chocolate industry. We eat approximately 12 pounds per person per year. Women eat more than men, and historically it has been the go-to gift to show appreciation and impress the ladies.
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Dish Up Good Taste and Flavor for Healthy Eating
March is National Nutrition Month and one of the keys in making nutritious choices is taste. Does it taste good? According to the dictionary taste is the ability to identify sweet, sour, bitter, or salty qualities of a dissolved substance through the taste buds, on the tongue. In addition to the four, a fifth savory quality, called umami is also recognized. Although each of these qualities is a factor of "taste," smell is a significant part of how we perceive what we taste, or the flavor of foods.
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Stay, Cool and Calm-Stress Less
Last month we lost an hour of sleep with daylight savings time. This month the tax man cometh, Mother Nature is sending spring storms and the event calendar says that April is Stress Awareness Month. Now I know most of you don’t need the calendar to remind you about stress. According to the Merriam-Webster tome, “stress is a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc.; something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety.”
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Shedding Light on Vitamin D
I'm a native Floridian and I'm able to exercise regularly outdoors---most often you'll find me counting my steps as I power walk. Now I know many of you are not in a perennially sunny region where bright sunlight is a bonus several months of the year. And this year the big chill made the thought of outdoor activity or exercise even more daunting. If you're in a sun-less part of the country not only do you miss out on the warm and relaxing touch of streaming sun rays, you also miss out on Vitamin D.
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