The other day, I posted on my Facebook page that spinach is not a good source of calcium. Even though it has a high calcium content, we can’t absorb the calcium because the calcium is bound with oxalates. We actually only absorb about 5% of the calcium in spinach! Then I received this response: Brandon: [...]
It seems years and years ago when I first met Nicole and we had our nutrition consults. She was my nutritionist. Then she became my friend. And then we started The Food Label Movement together. Thanks to Nicole, I found out how I could take courses and get my own diploma to be a Certified [...]
Health guru after health guru will tell you to opt for canola oil over margarine and butter since it’s so much lower in saturated fat. Even one of my nutrition text books recommends canola oil for its higher content of omega-3 fatty acids. But I’m going to refute all of that right now! Canola oil [...]
This year for Thanksgiving, I managed to convince the mother dear to purchase a local, organic, free-range turkey for the annual meal. It cost about a dollar more per pound, but it was worth every penny to switch to an ethically-raised turkey from our usual Butterball. The Stats: Turkeys on factory farms are killed by [...]
Earlier in September, Mr. Science and I hosted a dinner party (because dinner parties are awesome!) and we made a delicious healthified lasagna, proving that even the tastiest and most indulgent of comfort foods can be pumped full of nutrition and still taste fantastic. To healthify lasagna, all you need to do is make some [...]
When you’re living alone, it’s very easy to let meal-planning fall by the wayside. It’s easy to just have a bowl of cereal or a sandwich for dinner, or to pick up something ready-made from a deli or cafe. But when we do that, we’re often compromising our health and the simple pleasure of cooking [...]
How many times have you gone into a restaurant and ordered a meal that sounds reasonably healthy, only to check the nutrition information online afterwards and discovered that you consumed over 1,500 calories within the space of a couple hours? One problem with deciphering restaurant menus is that there are no regulations on phrases that [...]
Tonight I am going to see Manitoba’s premiere election candidates discuss food policy. Food is a very important issue and I think it’s wonderful that Food Matters MB has taken the effort to create this event. I’m hoping that the candidates will answer questions related to supporting small, local farmers, food security in poverty-stricken areas [...]
One of the most common reasons that people have for not buying much in the way of fresh fruit and vegetables is that they can’t eat the fresh produce fast enough before it starts to go bad. I like to buy large quantities of a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables at a time, and [...]
I am delighted to announce that this afternoon I will be giving a presentation to inner-city youths at Fort Whyte about how to make nutritious choices at the grocery store, the importance of good health and my role with The Food Label Movement. Some of the main points of my presentation include: – The current [...]
