Dishing Up Nutrition

After adopting a real food lifestyle, our unique biochemistry sometimes calls for supplements. Today we’ll advise and answer questions on supplement use, what works to normalize cholesterol, support your joints, speed up healing and more.

Nutritionists often hear, “my heartburn is out of control,” especially around the holidays. This podcast shares some simple solutions to avoid getting heartburn not only for the holiday season but for all year long.

Food labeling is confusing. From “natural,” to “non-GMO,” “organic,” “conventional,” “cage-free,” “Genetically Modified,” and the list goes on. This Dishing Up Nutrition podcast aims to clarify these terms and give you the confidence to choose as you shop.

The holidays are a tough time to eat healthy but it is possible. We have six tips to share, starting the easiest, never arrive hungry to a party, and share five more that are proven to help.

A show for all women of childbearing age, from preconception, pregnancy and postpartum, this Dishing Up Nutrition focuses on nutrition for all stages of pregnancy. Everything you’re eating, even well before you get pregnant, is impacting your future baby. Listen in to learn what foods help with fertility, and healthy babies and mamas.

Did you know that every single cell in your body has vitamin D receptors? Listen in to learn common deficiency signs and how vitamin D could arm you against cancer, disease and much more.

Incontinence is a topic most don’t want to discuss, even though it affects 13 million people. If you’ve ever lost urine control while laughing or exercising, listen in to learn what food and drinks are bladder irritants.

People with Crohn’s or Colitis typically experience severe abdominal cramping, nausea, and urgent bloody diarrhea.  With these types of symptoms it can be very difficult to live a normal, productive life—imagine always having to be on bathroom alert, making sure you are never too far from a toilet. Listen in to learn how changing your nutrition can put Crohn's and Colitis symptoms into remission.

We've all heard about how the liver helps with breaking down alcohol but what does it have to do with your metabolism? Listen in the learn what happens when your live is clogged (hint, you store fat rather than break it down) and how you can reverse that damage. 

Parents and grandparents will want to tune in to learn what nutrition has to do with common concerns for children – attention deficit, autism, asthma and bedwetting. We’ll share what foods to avoid and what foods to add into a diet for a healthy, happy kiddo.

For anyone battling cravings – from craving bread to Diet Coke or chocolate – it’s not a lack of will power that makes you crave certain foods, it could be a mineral deficiency. Be it magnesium (which 75% of American’s are deficient in!), iron, zinc or potassium, listen in to learn if you too have low levels that may be affecting more than just cravings.

The stats show that roughly two thirds of all Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease are women. In addition, more and more research is linking what people are eating, or not eating, to their Alzheimer’s risk factors. Listen in to learn more about the stark findings and what nutritional steps you, and your family, can take to help prevent brain cells from dying off.

Two Nutritional Weight & Wellness nutritionists answer questions from radio listeners and Facebook followers. Listen in to learn how people lose weight by eating the Weight & Wellness way, if protein powder is safe for kiddos, snack ideas to support energy and what exactly do all the RD, LN, RN titles mean for our nutritionist’s titles?

For anyone struggling with an eating disorder, or what many call disordered eating, special guest Jennifer Schmid joins Dishing Up Nutrition to shares her powerful story about the intestinal connection to her eating disorder. Listen to learn the biochemical connections to eating disorders and the new science of eating disorder treatment.

Dishing Up Nutrition welcomes renowned nutrition expert Ann Louise Gittleman to the podcast to discuss the hormonal and nutritional causes of menopause symptoms. Listen in to learn simple solutions, from what foods to eat and/or supplements to take, to get you feeling, and sleeping, more comfortable. 

How many times have you tried to drink more water, get more sleep, or fill-in-the-blank with whatever habit you’re trying to create, or break? Our guess is that you do well for a couple weeks and then end up sliding back to old habits. This Dishing Up Nutrition podcast looks at strategies to help direct small changes into larger goals and shares success stories from Nutritional Weight & Wellness c...

What if your diet is affecting your anxiety? On this Dishing Up Nutrition episode we'll discuss how real food and key supplements can help you balance your biochemistry to lessen symptoms and prevent a panic attack. 

For anyone dealing with, or confused by, thyroid symptoms – fatigue, weight gain, morning headaches, depression, constipation and many more – this Dishing Up Nutrition podcast is for you. Learn about the thyroid, gluten connection and gain practical ideas for you to naturally get your symptoms under control. 

Dr. Jacoby, author of  Sugar Crush , joins Dishing Up Nutrition to discuss neuropathy, “crippling nerve damage throughout the body—in our feet, organs, and brain” and why he suggests eliminating sugar and carbs “can mitigate and even reverse the damage.”

For some people, asthma is a minor nuisance. For others, it can be a major problem that interferes with daily activities and may lead to a life-threatening asthma attack. Doctors often talk about being aware of environmental triggers but don’t often address the food connection to asthma inflammation. On this episode we’ll share how real-foods can heal asthma. 

Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a complicated and complex condition that affects about 10% of women, many of whom don’t know they have it until they have fertility problems. PCOS impacts many different organs and causes problems throughout a woman’s life, anything from weight gain, acne, infertility and much more.   Research has shown that most, if not all, women with PCOS have insulin resi...

Guest Nancy Lindgren joins the hosts to discuss how important nutrition has been for her 34 years of sobriety. 

We all want our good sight to last as long as possible. With that in mind, this episode of Dishing Up Nutrition shares what foods to eat, and supplements to take, to combat dry or itchy eyes. 

Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before, joins Dishing Up Nutrition to discuss creating good habits and breaking bad ones. 

One out of seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime and about four out of five men, over age of 50, start to experience prostate symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency without completely emptying the bladder. On this episode of Dishing Up Nutrition, we talk all about prostate health including prostate cancer, enlarged prostate and frequent urination. Hosts Darlene...