Improving Your Nutrition from the Ground Up

Eating healthy can be a daunting task. Learning about what to eat, how to eat it, and how much can be overwhelming! That is why I am here to help! Registered Dietitians have the training to answer all those questions for you and more. With March being National Nutrition Month, I can’t think of a better time to start thinking about how we can make our diets more healthy. Over the next few weeks we will focus on one of the themes of National Nutrition Month, improving our nutrition from the ground up!

· Focusing on fruits and vegetables, especially those grown locally right here in Louisiana

· Making calories count, just because something is low calorie doesn’t meant it’s healthy

· Testing our taste buds! Trying new things to improve our palate and grocery lists

· Trick yourself with treats. Don’t be scared of this one, healthy doesn’t equal hungry

I’ll go into more detail for each one creating a tool-box of ideas, recipes, and steps to take towards a healthy diet. Healthy eating doesn’t mean sacrificing taste and it definitely doesn’t mean deprivation.

So come back next week to find out about focusing on fruits and vegetables with featured local produce, sold right here in New Orleans!

Check out www.eatright.org/nnm for more information on National Nutrition Month and more information on why Registered Dietitians are the nutrition experts you should seek for healthy eating advice.

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Lauren Futrell Dunaway, MPH, RD, graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Dietetics.  She then completed her dietetic internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After becoming a Registered Dietitian, she began to pursue a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Lauren currently works at the Tulane Prevention Research Center as a program manager for their core research project focusing on the built environment and how it affects obesity.