As the summer sun heats up, nothing sounds better than an ice-cold popsicle. Oftentimes, ice pops are loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Here are five guilt-free treats that are easy to make, will help you cool down, and are perfect for kids and adults alike! Frozen Fruit Pops Lots of fruit loaded into these! [...]

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Picnics are the best. These open-air outings bring together all the things I love the most: family, friends, good food, and the great outdoors. Whether it’s at a park, on the beach, or in my own backyard, there’s nothing better than enjoying the scenery while eating and lounging on a blanket. I like to get [...]

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Julia Child once said, “Wine is meant to be with food — that’s the point of it!” I couldn’t agree more. To me, a glass of good wine without a good meal is a waste of a good wine. Great food and great wine together can be sublime. After all, Aristotle taught us centuries ago [...]

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Are the feelings of “I have no time to cook” or “I am too tired to cook” preventing you from making home cooked meals during the week? Working parents especially find the thought of cooking dinner at the end of a long day to be overwhelming. The good news is that making home cooked, healthy [...]

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If you think that changing your eating habits will be difficult, you are not alone. Who wants to follow a list of “don’ts” from the food police telling you not to eat your favorite foods? As a registered dietitian, I work with people of all ages to dispel this concern. Whether it is a young [...]

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In March, we celebrated National Nutrition Month with a 21-day Culinary Countdown, sharing recipes and inviting people to make at least one homemade meal a day. We created an Eating Well Facebook Group to keep us inspired during the challenge and to share recipes, photos, and cooking tips (I loved seeing what everybody was cooking!) [...]

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You’ve heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is that actually true? Research says yes! According to the American Heart Association, men who skip breakfast have a 27% higher risk of heart attack or death from heart disease. Why? When someone skips breakfast, they are likely to be more hungry [...]

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There’s not just one diet, food item, dietary supplement, pill, or powder that fits all or is a fix all. Food/nutrition and its impact on our health is much more complex than that. An example of this is the connection between diet and our microbiota. The term microbiota refers to the collection of microorganisms (including, [...]

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The overwhelming majority of diets fail. We’ve all heard that statistic before. Some studies say it’s upwards of 90%, but whatever the number is, it’s clear that the way we’re trying to lose weight isn’t working. UW researcher Kristen Hammerback has a different solution: change your environment. “You want to make the healthy choice easy [...]

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Some of life’s most embarrassing problems are a lot more common than we think. Approximately one in seven adults suffer from gastrointestinal problems such as gas and bloating, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and functional diarrhea. These symptoms can be painful and disruptive to normal activities. There has been research suggesting that a low FODMAP diet [...]

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For the final week of the March Culinary Countdown, we’re bringing you some recipes from Charlotte Furman, a registered dietician and the wellness and technology manager for the UW Medical Center’s Department of Food and Nutrition. First, we asked her a few questions about cooking and nutrition. What does “healthy eating” mean to you? To me, [...]

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For the second week of the March Culinary Countdown, we asked UW Club’s Executive Chef Jon Maley to share some of his delicious recipes with us. We also asked him a few questions to keep us inspired throughout the rem­­aining 14 days of our homemade meals challenge. Tell us a little bit about yourself. How [...]

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