Diana Dyer, MS, RD

What's New? We are officially farmers!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:44:00 +0000

No action on Groundhog Day at the two groundhog homes that I know of on our farm. We had a cloudy day with light snow but no evidence of groundhog emergence, at least based on the fact that no paw prints were visible outside the two holes that we saw groundhogs enter last fall, which our old dog...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Recipe - Vegetarian Lentil Paella

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:00 +0000

February is Heart Healthy Month (or something like that!), and as much as I usually focus on information related to cancer on this blog, it is a fact that many more women die of cardiovascular related diseases (like heart attack and stroke) than cancer. In fact CVD is responsible for over 40% of...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Bluebirds - A Recipe for Happiness

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:42:00 +0000

I've been looking, looking, and looking for an Eastern bluebird on our new farm property since we first went to look at the house and land last March. I have seen one fly across the road about a mile away on Dec 27, land and pose in the sunlight next to the road for a great view, but that had been...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Milestones

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:28:00 +0000

Short and sweet! I have two (two!) engaged sons, one planning a wedding for summer 2010 and the other for summer 2011. I am so proud, excited, and thankful that both of my boys have reached this milestone in life with happiness and confidence, each having found a truly lovely young woman to love,...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Signs of Spring

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:02:00 +0000

Yes! Although some are from last year, some are from this year already, too! (Photo: Queen's Anne Lace, often called "bird's nest" during winter months as the remaining flower structure closes in on itself to look like a very small bird's nest) (Photo: some bird's nest beginning that was never...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

A Home Blessing

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:43:00 +0000

The holidays have come and gone too quickly. Our grown boys were home from the East coast and the West coast for 7-10 days, which was simply not enough time for them to catch up on their sleep, to finish holiday shopping and wrapping, baking and cooking, writing our family holiday letter, visiting...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Snowy Farm Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:15:00 +0000

(Photo: The road to the farm - just the right amount of snow as our county no longer has enough money to plow on the weekends - sigh..........) We've only had a small amount of snow so far, enough to take a few photos, enough for my husband to try out the blade and the front-end loader on the...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Recipe - Date Pinwheel Cookies

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:54:00 +0000

(Photo: Date Pinwheel Cookies - a long-time Grant-Dyer family holiday tradition!) These date pinwheel cookies have been a special part of our family holiday traditions for as long as I can remember. My mother got the recipe from neighbors when they were living in a small Ohio town after first...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Recipe - Caramelized Onion and Roasted Red Pepper Dip

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:24:00 +0000

(Photo: Close-up of Caramelized Onion and Roasted Red Pepper Dip) At a recent cookie exchange, I had the pleasant first-time experience of eating a dip using Greek yogurt and caramelized onions, that's it. It was scrumptious and put the packaged onion dip mix that is mixed into sour cream to...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Spice Intake May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:08:00 +0000

A recently published study has demonstrated that isolated compounds from the spices turmeric (curcumin) and black pepper (piperine) could help prevent breast cancer by limiting the growth of breast stem cells, the small number of cells within tumors that promote a tumor's growth. No effects were...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Soy Foods Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:20:00 +0000

(Photo: Edamame, boiled, drained, chilled and sprinkled with a mixed herb seasoning) A research study published today examined and compared the soy food intake and breast cancer recurrence and death rates in a large population of Chinese women living in Shanghai who are breast cancer survivors. The...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

"All the Good Things of the Earth"

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:50:00 +0000

I saw this quotation today and knew I had to make a quick posting to share it with my readers. “Cooking should be a carefully balanced reflection of all the good things of the earth.” ~~Jean & Pierre Troisgros That quotation is certainly supportive of the concept that we are what we purchase,...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

6,255 garlic cloves in the ground!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:28:00 +0000

It is said that farmers' work is never done, but we have reached our goal and a time to rest for a little bit. Today, during Thanksgiving Week, Dick and I finally finished all of our garlic planting and the mulching of all the beds. Whew! We are both tired tonight, but I am so excited to have come...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Garlic Planting Fiesta!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:25:00 +0000

After planting nearly 2,500 garlic cloves by ourselves, working out the techniques, we put out a "last-minute" mass email to friends to come help us finish planting when we saw the beautiful weather forecast for the Saturday of last weekend (clear and in the 60's, a real rarity for a Michigan...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Washington, DC, Walden Pond, and Words of Inspiration

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:47:00 +0000

I'll bring you up to date about our garlic planting fiesta in my next post, but first I wanted to finally share a bit about my travels earlier in November. I made a whirlwind trip with the initial stop being in Washington, DC, where I was invited to speak about my personal experiences as a cancer...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

400 in the ground - only ~5,500 more to go!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:35:00 +0000

We finally started actually putting garlic cloves in the ground today in their freshly made raised beds that had been plowed, disked twice, planted with late summer buckwheat for some green manure, 30 yards of wonderful compost from Ann Arbor (from our city's billions of leaves!), all disked down...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Who is shaping the future?

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:50:00 +0000

I'll state right up front that even though I am not a daily reader, I am a fan of the writing on The Onion. So when a friend sent me the link to the article "Television, Processed Food Couldn't Be More Proud of Child They Raised", I figured it was a good read. Indeed, it was a good read that did...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Holiday Eating Strategies - Already!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:29:00 +0000

What? Holidays already? Yes, the store shelves are filled with Halloween candy, Thanksgiving decorations, Santa Claus and other holiday decorations with even more candy right nest to them! So let the feasting season begin along with the season of parties, extra food and drinks, lack of time to cook...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Recipe - Ratatouille

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:11:00 +0000

A perfect recipe to combine those abundant end of summer veggies. This quick and easy version makes a large batch, about 10 cups, enough to eat some this week plus freeze the rest to eat later during the winter. Ingredients: • 1 large onion, chopped • 6 cloves garlic, minced • 2 small or 1 large...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

A Tribute to my Friend Sue

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:25:00 +0000

It was a year ago that I wrote a tribute to my friend Mona who died of breast cancer. Yesterday another dear friend died of the same disease, way too young, with much too much of life still ahead. I only learned how gravely ill Sue was on Sunday night, admitted to the ICU at a medical center where...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Michael Pollan - Twice in one day

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:57:00 +0000

I found out this morning that my alma mater (The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I did my dietetic internship and received my MS in Nutritional Sciences) has instituted their first campus wide 'common book' with their Go Big Read! program featuring In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. This...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Let the farming begin!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:15:00 +0000

(Photo: my husband and his "new baby") With the purchase of our land and home that are in need of so much nurturing and work to bring them back to life, I have been describing my husband as "the happiest man on the planet", with the caveat that he didn't even have his tractor yet! Well, that day...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

September is Ann Arbor's 1st Local Food Month!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:58:00 +0000

Did you know that Michigan has the 2nd most diverse agricultural production of actual food that we eat (not commodity crops)? No? You're not alone. Most people don't know that Michigan is 2nd only to California in terms of the large number of different types of food grown in the state (everything...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Childhood Cancer Nutrition Teleconferences

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:05:00 +0000

Because I am a survivor of a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma and a Registered Dietitian (RD), I have often been asked for advice about diet during treatments and recovery from childhood cancers. However, I always feel professionally inadequate in this situation and try to refer these families...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

What do dietitians eat? Book club menu #8

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:31:00 +0000

I think I might have skipped posting a couple menus over the past year (and last month we did have a potluck dinner), but here is what we had to eat last night. We viewed and discussed short documentaries related to food and water concerns in Michigan. Menu Cold Zucchini-Curry...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.