I love chocolate, particularly dark chocolate.  I make no apologies, and the more I learn about chocolate and the cocoa bean, the more I realize no apologies are needed.  It’s...

The Environmental Working Group’s latest annual “Dirty Dozen” list of fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residues could scare any consumer away from eating produce.  After seeing the EWG...

March should probably be called International Nutrition Month, as this year’s theme is “Celebrate a World of Flavors.” It’s all about appreciating how many different cuisines there are in the...

Some people are surprised to learn that I, as a registered dietitian-nutritionist, eat meat, including beef.  For some reason, they think that eating beef puts someone into a category of...

Everyone’s dream: for the healthiest foods to also be the most delicious. Let’s face it, taste often casts the deciding vote about whether we’ll eat a food or not, irrespective...

Wow, the right book at the right time, written by the right author for the job: my colleague, Rosanne Rust, MS, RDN. I have a thing against wasting food. It...