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...

Introduction :   In the nutrition class I teach, students were asked to write a blog post on a nutrition topic. One of those students, Morgan Petoskey, wrote an interesting blog post on a healthy diet.   Students were also asked to conduct some of their own “research” on the nutrition topic and that research is shared in her post.   I welcome Morgan Petoskey as a guest author to this week’s blog post.   Source:  Best Diet Why is it so hard to stick to a diet?   Every year, hundreds of thousands of people celebrate the new year and their first resolution is to eat “healthier”, but what exactly does that mean?   Most people go to the gym more and count calories, others try and cut out carbs from their diets.   Most people get this mindset that says we aren’t trying too hard, and some diets are just really hard to stick with.   What would be an easy diet to stick to that has easy solutions?   The answer is simple, try the Mediterranean di...