Senin, 27 April 2009

Overall Health - Swine Flu

Hello from Vancouver, WA! I am here for the Washington State Dietetic Association annual meeting and conference which has been combined this year with the Oregon Dietetic Association. I will post more on my learnings here at the conference later on topics like the "slow food" movement, sustainable food systems, saturated fat, menu labelling, probiotics, eating disorders, etc....

Kamis, 09 April 2009

Junk Science

As we all know, there are people out there that will take a tiny bit of scientific information (that they may or may not acutally understand) and blow it out of proportion and into some fad diet, new supplement, crazy whatever - that happens to cost you 4 payments of $19.95. Its so important as consumers (everybody eats right?) in the food and nutrition world, to really understand how to sort through all of the information that is thrown at you....