March is Nutrition Month. This year’s theme is: Celebrate food….from field to table.
“Knowing where our food comes from, how it’s grown and harvested and how to choose foods for the best nutrition is the goal of this year’s National Nutrition Month campaign. Our country has much to celebrate with regard to the food available to [...]

What’s your New Years resolution? My New Years (new decade!) resolution is to buy more local foods. Local foods support the local economy, save transportation pollution and are fresher – therefore tastier and more nutritious. If you haven’t seen the movie “Food Inc” I would recommend watching it. It definitely provides some stories that will [...]

I am often asked if organic food is healthier than ‘convential’ food. From a nutrition standpoint, there is little difference (if any), between organic and non-organic dairy products and meats. As for produce, studies have proven that while they may not consistently be higher in vitamin content, organic produce does contain more phytochemicals. And this [...]