Yesterday in my class called “Hot Topics in Nutrition”, we examined a study which looked at 4 different popular diets.  The point of the study was to identify which diet worked best after 6 months in ~1,000 women. The 4 diet contenders were:
Weight-Watchers on-line: (popular program for decades focusing on portion control, points assigned to foods for [...]

Fresh fruits and vegetables, homemade breads and baked goods…YUM! All of these foods will be sold at SLU’s first farmer’s market this week!
Fresh Gatherings Cafe, our Nutrition and Dietetics run cafeteria, along with Chartwell’s and the SLU School of Public Health will be hosting SLU’s first farmer’s market. The event will take place on [...]

This week, I attended a class our nutrition students are required to take called “Nutrition Organic Tutorial.”  The tutorial didn’t start until 7 p.m., so I decided to check out the new stir-fry restaurant on campus called Santo Bento, santobento.com.
I looked over the menu, and decided to order the salmon stir-fry. The gentleman who took my order informed me [...]