Dishing Up Nutrition

Are you someone, or do you know someone, that always seems to come down with the common cold?  Does it seem to take forever before you're feeling better?  Tune in this week and learn which foods drag your immune system down and which foods give it a boost.

What are you're roadblocks to healthy eating?  Could it be that you're in a rut and that you're tired of cooking?  This week Darlene, Wendy and Tamara offer lots of great ideas on how to get past those hurdles.

This week Licensed Nutritionists Darlene Kvist and Kara Carper welcome special guest Dr. Rob Thompson, MD to discuss his new book, "The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution."  If you or someone you know is struggling with pre-diabetes or diabetes this show will help explain how different carbohydrates affect a person's blood sugar.

Halloween candy, for many people, is the beginning of the sugar season.  Bags of Halloween candy carry us into Thanksgiving pies, then on to the Holiday treats.  In the aftermath are a few more pounds and the Holiday Blues.  This week Licensed Nutritionists Kara Carper and Anna Derhak talk about how to avoid the Halloween candy trap and end the downward spiral.  Tune in for Tips and Tricks to the Tricks and Treats.

Childhood obesity has tripled in the past thirty years.  Thirty percent of our children are overweight and twenty percent are considered to be obese.  This week Darlene Kvist, LN, Cassie Weness, RD and Tamara Brown, RD explain how processed and fast foods play a part in this epidemic.  They also share several great tips on which foods to feed your kids.

Tune in this week to hear a new thought on helping with low moods, depression, anxiety, addiction, compulsive eating, and even anger.  You guessed it, nutrition.  The ladies from Dishing Up Nutrition discuss which foods boost your mood and even which foods reduce stress on your brain.

Water is vital to a healthy life.  Dehydration can raise stress hormones and damage your brain.  Dehydration can even drop your baseline metabolism.  There are many, many reason why we should all be in the habit of drinking lots of water.  Clean, great tasting water can make a huge difference in helping develop that healthy habit.  This week Darlene Kvist, LN and Wendy Cates-Dancer, RN are joined by special guest Richard Grassie, water expert, to discuss the differences between tap water, and all the various forms of filtered water.

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 65.  Tune in this week to hear Darlene Kvist, LN and Anna Derhak, LN with special guest Tamara Brown, RD discuss how nutrition can play a huge role in preventing macular degeneration.

Are you well past your teenage years and skin suffer from acne?  Or maybe your teenage kids are suffering all the consequences of bad skin.  This week Cassie Weness, R.D. and Kara Carper, L.N. explain how healthy eating can change your skin from the inside out.  Save hundreds of dollars in expensive lotions, acne treatments and cover-up by changing what you eat.

One key to a healthy, active metabolism is maintaining your lean body mass.  This week Darlene Kvist, Licensed Nutritionist and Kristen Gunderson, Nutrition Educator explain how to build and maintain lean body mass using healthy nutrition and real food.