Eating For Health

Everyone seems to have some hints and advice as to how we can stay safe and keep ourselves healthy during this coronavirus pandemic.   More of us are staying home and cooking at home.   What are some food safety tips to keep you and your family safe? What are the dietitians recommending ?      Before cooking anything – be smart and wash those hands.   Always a good practice before the virus hit our country and now handwashing has become even more important.   Dry your hands with paper towels.   Eat well but avoid any supplements that promise to treat or cure COVID-19.   There are many ways to boost your immune system by eating healthy foods.   Read more at:   Diet Tips to Boost Your Immune System .   Eat This, Not That! Has some recommendations on food safety : Wash produce Wash that produce – if you aren’t going to cook it, be sure to wash carrots, cucumbers, green peppers, tomatoes, other produce under running water.   Rinse away the virus.   Keep surfaces

Everyone seems to be talking about how to boost their immune system.   On the radio today a doctor recommended getting enough sleep, boost your immune system with vitamin C by drinking a glass of Orange Juice [be sure it is real juice and not a juice drink like Sunny D] and adding foods rich in zinc.   Zinc has been an especially hot topic on social media this week.   My sister sent me an article on boosting your immune system through diet.   A colleague in the United Kingdom at Movement & Nutrition posted about diet myths during this coronavirus crises.    Add some zinc rich foods to boost your immune system. Lisa Ballehr advises you to “ eat the rainbow ”.   I teach my students USDA’s recommendation to EAT 5 A DAY, at least 5 fruits and veggies every day.   When my students do their 24-hour diet recall it is surprising how few students get anywhere near 5 A DAY.   Their only vegetable is often French Fries and the “juice” isn’t juice but lemonade or a juice drink l

Odd that so many people are choosing plant-based beverages labeled as “milk” over real cow’s milk.   Most people do this thinking these plant-based “milks” are nutritionally superior to real cow’s milk.   Is it?   If one replaces real milk with plant-based milks, are they missing out on important nutrients?   Yes.   Yet the popularity of these plant-based milks continues.   A recent article in the paper, Stop Milking it, farmers tell plant-based competitors ” describes how dairy farmers are concerned as to why   plant-based beverages can be labeled “milk” when they contain no milk at all.    What has happened to real cow’s milk?   Dairy farmers across the country are pushing to have “milk” mean from a “cow” and not the plant-based milk – oat, almond, soy and other plant-based beverages labeled “milk”.   North Carolina has led the states in legislating what can be called “milk”. The farmers aren’t trying to restrict production of plant-based beverages but many dairy farmers wan

Who isn’t talking about the coronavirus?   We just got back from the store and carts were loaded up with bottles of water and cleaning supplies.   But are there foods you can eat that are anti-viral foods?   How about boosting your immune system?   What foods should you be putting in your shopping cart? MSN has a good article , “ Coronavirus:   Anti-viral foods to build immunity and keep diseases away” .   There is even a short video to watch called, “Boosting Immunity to Prevent ‘Coronavirus’ Infection”.   What foods should you be putting in your shopping cart to boost your immunity?     1. Garlic – considered a “powerful anti-viral” food.   Easy to add some chopped garlic to food dishes.                   2 .   Resveratrol – you may have heard of resveratrol as an anti-aging agent.   But is also helps fight fungal infections, “stress, and injury”.   What foods provide resveratrol?   Quite a few including:   Peanuts – I love to eat a handful of peanuts a day.   Dr.