Nutrition By Carrie

Carrie's Test Kitchen: ALT bars

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

I know I've mentioned a time or two that LARABAR is one of the few energy/snack bars I buy. I look for bars that have as few ingredients as possible, and deeply prefer that those ingredients are real...

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Road to RDville: Freaky Friday

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday! Last week was an intense experience in RDville. I started on a new clinical rotation, on the surgical trauma floor, and let's just say the patient population there is a little more...

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Links I Like

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday! And happy Food Revolution Day! I won't be doing any home cooking today, alas (unless you count my brown bag lunch), because I have a School of Public Health celebration event this...

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Delicious bites of wisdom

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:17:00 +0000

As I mentioned, I went to see Michael Pollan talk about his new book, "Cooked" Monday evening. I think it would be fair to say he was preaching to the choir, but that doesn't mean that the points he...

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Coming Soon: Food Revolution Day

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Are you planning to partake in Food Revolution Day? I was, and was looking forward to actually cooking a real recipe, since my meals the last few months, while healthy, have run to very simple food...

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The Road to RDville: Shifting gears

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday! Last week was a phenomenal week in RDville. During my 10-week clinical rotation at Harborview Medical Center, I'm doing three "mini" rotations. Last week was the smallest of the three,...

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Links I Like: Special Gluten Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday! This week I have a special links list. These are some of the best online resources I've found for information on celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and other conditions that...

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What have you been wondering about gluten?

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Lots of people have lots of questions about gluten. Below, I'm asking and answering some of the most common questions I hear. If you haven't read my column in last Sunday's Seattle Times or my...

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When gluten's not to blame

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Yesterday, I talked about the differences between the various gluten-related disorders (wheat allergy, celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis, non-celiac gluten sensitivity), and mentioned that...

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Sorting out gluten-related disorders

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Behold, the hierarchy of gluten-related disorders. As I discussed in my On Nutrition column in Sunday's Seattle Times, there are various reasons that people may have adverse reactions to gluten....

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On Nutrition: Should you go gluten free?

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday! And happy Celiac Awareness Month! In case you haven't noticed, the gluten-free trend is quite...trendy. I think that's unfortunate for two reasons: Gluten-free foods have a health halo...

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Links I like

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday! I had a great week, and am looking forward to a super-productive weekend. I'm also looking forward to spending some quality time on my patio (weekend temps in the mid-to-upper 70s),...

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That '70s Show

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Last weekend, while I had my nose to the grindstone on this project and that, Jeff was down in Oregon at a big family garage sale. He unloaded all the no-longer-wanted stuff that had been crowding...

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Road to RDville: School of hard knocks

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday! I had a productive weekend...and I hope you had a fun one. I did actually have some fun...I finally watched Anna Karenina, and I cleaned out two paper grocery sacks full of old research...

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Links I like

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday. Really happy, since it's 70+ and sunny here in Seattle (I'm not thinking about the fact that it's supposed to be mid-50s and rainy this weekend...good thing I have a lot of indoor...

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An ideal diet?

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Under the heading of "better late than never," last week I went to a talk on "Eating to Prevent Disease" at the South Lake Union Discovery Center. The speakers were Mario Kratz, PhD, MSc, a...

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Road to RDville: Does it fit?

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday. It's the beginning of Week 4 of my core clinical inpatient dietetics internship at Harborview Medical Center. I feel like it's going to be a good week. The previous three weeks have...

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Links I Like

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday! I hope to write up some nuggets of nutrition goodness that I gleaned from the Washington State Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics conference I attended earlier this week, but I won't...

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Nutrition: Who's the expert?

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

We all eat, so we're all experts on nutrition...or are we? As Dr. David Katz points out in his most excellent Opinion Stew piece on The Huffington Post, on some level we have an intuitive sense on...

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On Nutrition: Should we shun sodium?

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday! My latest On Nutrition column for The Seattle Times, "Cut the salt, but add potassium," is online. Check it out. I fully believe (and this is a belief based on science), that one of...

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Links I Like

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday! I can't believe that Week 2 of my rotation at Harborview is over. In my spare amount of spare time, I have kept up with the nutrition news happenings, and there's been some real treats...

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Paleo diet: Just the facts

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Last week, Jessica Kuzma, MS, RD, a local dietitian who has been following a paleo diet for several years, gave a talk at my weekly dietetic student seminar about paleo diet myths and facts. Kuzma...

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The Road to RDville: Sink or swim

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

OK...last week was really something. Have you ever taken a foreign language immersion class, where from day 1 the teacher only speaks the unfamiliar language to you? I haven't, but I'm guessing that...

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Just ducky

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone! Just a heads up that I'm taking a blogging break this week so that I can make sure I get all my ducks in a row as I adjust to my new schedule this term. I start Round 2 of my dietetic...

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Links I Like

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie Dennett) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Happy Friday! It is sunny in Seattle. So exciting, especially since the last two springs have looked more like winter. The dog's getting a bath (whew!) and we're going to do a little spring garden...

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