The 'Next Level Interviews' is a series that I've created to help give you the more interesting and effective health and fitness information available. I've sought out the definitive leaders in their field, to ask them what they are currently working on, and what...
The other week, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak with a class of senior nutrition students at Penn State. My talk centered on my career path in nutrition which my colleagues in the PSU Nutrition department affectionately call...
Your ability to make healthy food, relatively quickly is a key component to your nutritional success. Planning meals does not always work, life throws you curve balls all the time. It is important that you have the ability to make simple meals rather quickly. This...
Fast Food Meals: You CAN make the best of a bad situation.
Protein is really popular right now. For years, people of the Muscle Building Community have always revered the power of protein. I now find myself talking with physicians, nurses, and dietitians about protein's role in improving their patients' weight, blood...
Let’s get the obvious reason you overeat out of the way: Food tastes really good. And some of it tastes really, really good. The truth, though, is that everyone likes food, yet some people struggle to find their stopping point more than others. Being aware of the...
Nutrition plans can be put into 2 phases: Planning & Executing. Generally, people love the planning phase. This is the fun part. You get to decide what diet plan you are going to use, select meals and recipes that you are going to eat, and you can even model...
I never thought that some of the best diet advice I'd hear would come from Andy Dwyer on Parks & Recreation. A couple years ago Chris Pratt, who played Andy Dwyer, was cast as Star Lord in the sci-fi film Guardians of the Galaxy. Unlike Andy, Star Lord was a...
"Is [insert any random food] food bad for me?" This is a very common question that I get from people whether they be clients or a person sitting next to me on a plane after they learned that I'm a nutritionist. I still don't have a good standard answer to this...
