The “Need” for Iodized Salt Exploring Iodine

Have you heard that iodized salt is the only way to meet your needs for dietary iodine?  Do you feel confused about your need for iodine and wonder how salt impacts your health? This is especially relevant during February, heart health month, as your amount of sodium...

New Year Foods Make a more positive promise to yourself!

  In this first month of the year, our thoughts are often on improving ourselves and our health. These improvements tend to focus on the “bad” habits or foods that need to be eliminated.  There are certain things in our lives and diets that our bodies would be...

Can Comfort Food Be Healthy?

Diet culture is so pervasive in our society that many believe a meal must be overly restrictive, exclude certain food groups, and, often enough, lack flavor and satisfaction in order to be considered ‘healthy’. These sentiments seem to expand and become somehow even...

Boost Your Winter Wellness with Beets A Festive Root Vegetable

Winter farmers markets in the Seattle area are brimming with these beautiful, nutritious, vibrantly colored root vegetables. Packed with potassium, magnesium, fiber, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B, and C, beta carotene, folic acid, and antioxidants; eating beets is...

Going Beyond Nutrition The Role of Indigenous Foods

Thanksgiving is widely celebrated as a day of offering gratitude for the bounty of the autumn harvest. The traditions of Thanksgiving offer an annual opportunity to gather, share memories, and appreciate an abundance of delicious foods. November is also National...