Back-to-School Fueling: Helping Kids Eat Enough for School and Sports
Back-to-school season brings a major shift in routine—and for many kids and teens, fewer opportunities to eat. A conversation we often have with families at McDaniel Nutrition is how to make the transition from summer to school while continuing to eat enough to...
Beyond Diet Culture: A Dietitian’s Evolving View of Weight and Health
One of the most human things we do is evolve. We learn, we grow, and sometimes we completely rethink things we once believed. As dietitians, that evolution matters. At McDaniel Nutrition, many people come to us seeking weight loss support, help improving cholesterol...
Sitting With the Struggle: How to Talk to Our Kids About Body Image
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing someone whose work I’ve long admired on social media: Oona Hanson. She specializes in addressing diet culture and eating disorders, two topics that are so important—and often challenging—to discuss. In this post, I’m...
Gut Check: 5 Top Gut Health Myths Demystified!
It Happens to Us All… A couple of weeks ago, my son and I went out for a special mama-son dinner at an Italian restaurant on The Hill—his request for his 14th birthday. Afterward, we headed to a concert (we saw Caamp, if you’re curious ;), and by the end of the night,...