KTK-Nutrition

Getty Images/TODAY Introduction:   In the nutrition class I teach, students were asked to write a blog post on a nutrition topic.   One of those students, Sophia Cable, wrote an interesting blog post on a whole grains.   Students were also asked to conduct some of their own “research” on their nutrition topic and that research is shared in her post.     I welcome Sophia Cable as a guest author for this week’s blog post. Grains are commonly thought of as bread, rice, pasta, and oats.   Many people think that they should not be eating bread daily, or that they should never eat a plate of spaghetti.   This is not true. Foods like this can be very healthy and beneficial to incorporate into your diet.   The only thing is to make sure to choose the healthier options.   You may be asking how can bread or pasta ever be healthy?   The answer is simpler than you would think…choose whole grains. To gather a little more information about what pe...

Are you using coconut oil and thinking it is a healthy choice?   Many people I talk to and a number of students in my classes think coconut oil is healthy.   Not true.   If you are using coconut oil, there are many healthier choices.   A recent article on getpocket.com says , Stop cooking with Coconut Oil .   Why do some people think coconut oil is good for your health? The article notes that two studies in 2003 claimed coconut oil would reduce your belly fat.   Not only that but coconut oil would rev up your metabolism.   Based on these claims, some health advocates pushed coconut oil and a surprising number of people listened to them.   People started cooking with coconut oil, adding coconut oil to smoothies, and even adding some to their morning coffee.   More claims were provided as to how eating coconut oil would improve your memory , lower cholesterol, boost your immune system and even promote good digestion.      ...

Last week we looked at five ways you can lose weight without going on a “diet”.   Let’s look at five more habits you can adopt to drop a few pounds and start to get in shape for the summer.   Too often we go on a “diet”, lose some weight and then regain it once we go off the “diet”.   But what if we adopted habits that helped us not only lose a few pounds but keep the weight off when we do lose it.   So instead quick diets, quack diets, fad diets, try some new eating habits and lifestyle habits to take off the extra holiday pounds.   Here are five more habits to try from the article:   10 ways to Start Losing Weight, No Matter How Unmotivated You Are. 1.  Set some health goals that have nothing to do with the number on the scale Rather than just focus on losing pounds, focus on getting some health measure healthier.   Have cholesterol a little high, how can you change eating and exercise habits to bring down your cholesterol?   A r...