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Danielle VenHuizen

Food Additive Watch: Should you Avoid Carrageenan?

I’m starting a new series of blog posts focusing on food additives entitled “Food Additive Watch.” As much as I...
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Smoothies: Are you Friend or Foe?

I feel like I’ve been recommending smoothies a lot recently, and the interesting thing is that I tend to get...
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Diet Diaries Go High Tech

You can ditch the pen and paper. Keeping track of what you eat has never been easier. First there were...
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As a Dietitian, What Do MY Kids Eat For Breakfast?

As a Dietitian, I know people are constantly scrutinizing what I and my family eat. I’m not complaining; I get...
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Book Review: The Virgin Diet by JJ Virgin

It seems that amongst the continual slog of new diet books coming on the market, more and more of them...
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Elimination Diets: The Gold Standard for Food Sensitivities?

Have you ever gone through the rigor of an elimination diet to see if there are foods in your diet...
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Everything in Moderation?

I got to thinking about this phrase recently. We definitely use it a lot, often towards the purpose of helping...
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Aflatoxin Exposure: Reason for Concern?

I’ll admit it. I haven’t been paying much attention to aflatoxins. Sure, I’ve seen news clips about them here and...
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IBS: When Food Becomes Foe

IBS. It’s one of the acronyms that gets thrown around a lot, casually in many cases. But for the millions...
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