We all had that first job, the start of our professional career as dietitians. Like our first love, the first job often leaves the biggest impression and can sometimes even result in making a crucial decision about our career path. My first job as a registered dietitian was as the Chief of Clinical Dietetics at… Continue reading Words of Wisdom: Advice to New Dietitians
Several years ago on a family trip to Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s theme park nestled in the mountains of East Tennessee, we passed the Bush’s beans plant. I marveled at the large complex but we were on a mission, to take a 10 year old to an amusement park, so we had no time to stop.… Continue reading Desperately Seeking DUKE ( A Visit to Bush’s Beans)
Stephanie Fairweather, dietetic intern at Lenoir-Rhyne University contributed this post. What kind of grocery shopping and eating changes would a person recently diagnosed with Celiac disease need to make in life? May is Celiac Awareness Month, and Ingles Markets Dietitian Leah McGrath posed this question, challenging me to observe and experience how food buying… Continue reading Guest Post: The Celiac Challenge
For over ten years I’ve worked with celiac disease and gluten intolerance support groups, long before “going gluten-free” was a fad endorsed by celebrities. Though I don’t have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity; I’ve planned and attended at least twenty gluten-free events, attended multiple educational sessions about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet and sampled countless gluten-free cookies, cakes, donuts,… Continue reading Got to be Gluten-Free
“Taste of Local”- Guest post by Ana Hoffman – University of TN Dietetic Intern. Grown in your town. Picked by your neighbor. Sold down the street. The local food craze is sweeping the nation- town by town. If you’re anything like me, you’ve seen the popular slogan, “Eat Local,” on bumper stickers of every passing… Continue reading A Dietetic Intern gets a taste of “Taste of Local” at Ingles
Becoming a dietitian is no easy feat. It takes years of study of difficult and demanding classes (please don’t mention Organic Chemistry). You need at least an undergraduate degree ( and soon a Master’s will be required). You must complete an internship that can last nine months to over a year, You must pass a… Continue reading Dietitians Answer the Question: “Why did you become a dietitian?”
About once a month I travel “down the mountain” to Greenville, South Carolina to appear on Your Carolina (WSPA-TV) . Before driving back to Asheville I stop to see my friends at Swamp Rabbit Café located next to the Swamp Rabbit Trail in downtown Greenville. I’ve know Jac Oliver and Mary Walsh, the owners of Swamp Rabbit Café,… Continue reading Sweet Success with Postre Sea Salt Caramel Sauce
The Scientific Report for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015.asp) has just been released and will be in comment phase until April so it will probably be late summer or early fall before the official 2015 Dietary Guidelines are made public. Once again I see people proclaiming the benefits of Brazil’s Dietary Guidelines… Continue reading Dietary Guideline Envy-Are the Guidelines Greener/Better in Another Country?
We are hunkered down as Snowmaggedon 2016 aka Winter Storm Jonas aka Snowpocalypse envelops the house in a swirling curtain of snow. Trees in the yard – white out sky We can usually see the mountains from our kitchen window but today the sky is white just beyond our neighbor’s fir trees, their branches dipping towards the… Continue reading #Snowpocalypse Stew
I am long overdue in posting this but my good intentions were sidetracked by Christmas so…better late than never! For the past few years I’ve been making food gifts for some of my work colleagues. Usually it’s been spiced Georgia pecans but this year I decided to try my hand at ….(drum roll please…..) Cranberry Pistachio… Continue reading Cranberry Almond Pistachio Granola
