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Q&A: Since coconut oil is high in saturated fat, should I just avoid it?

January 26, 2015 By Julie Lanford MPH, RD, CSO, LDN

After the olive oil article Lora wrote last week, we had a question about coconut oil from a reader on my facebook page. So we decided coconut oil would be a good topic for the next Q&A! Don't forget about our seminar this Thursday evening at Cancer Services' office in Winston-Salem. Cancer Nutrition Myths and Truths: Thursday 1/29 at 5:30pm. We will be demonstrating and tasting 3 recipes and giving you some of the ingredients for you to take home and try yourself. We'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hot Topics, Myth Busting Tagged With: butter, coconut, diet, fat, food, health, monounsaturated, nutrition, oil, saturated, vegetable

Vegan Peanut Butter Pie Recipe to Try and Upcoming Programs

August 1, 2014 By Julie Lanford MPH, RD, CSO, LDN

I hope everyone has had a good week. When it's summer I often find myself trying to balance the desire to be outside, with the necessity of getting work done. Occasionally I get lucky and can accomplish both at the same time. And sometimes, I get a double bonus and I get to work with another dietitian while outside. Woohoo! This picture is of the "office" that Debra Benfield, of Body in Mind Nutrition, and I shared as we planned out the Mindful Eating series that Cancer Services … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: butter, cancer, debunked, health, myths, nutrition, peanut, pie, recipe, vegan

Dietary Fat Recommendations: Have The Experts Been Lying?

January 30, 2014 By Julie Lanford MPH, RD, CSO, LDN

A friend of mine asked me for my thoughts on a blog post titled "Top 9 Biggest Lies About Dietary Fat and Cholesterol". It's really great that my friend is interested in the opinion from someone who has been trained in nutrition (that's me!). It's important that consumers are skeptical about what nutrition information to believe. Lots of bloggers like to present themselves as experts. Just because you feed people doesn't make you a nutrition expert. That's all I'm going to say … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hot Topics, Myth Busting Tagged With: butter, diet, fat, low carb, low-fat, mediterranean, nutrition, olive oil, processed oils

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