Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.

Diet and Nutrition Beverages

Try these warm smoothies once the weather outside turns cold.

4 Warm Smoothies for Cold Winter Days

Published Nov,16 2018 | By Allison J Stowell MS, RD, CDN

Smoothies are perfect for a quick meal or as a pre-workout source of nutrients, but what about when it gets cold outside? Try these warm smoothies instead.

10 Foods You Should Break Up With Right Now

Published Apr,21 2018 | By Allison J Stowell MS, RD, CDN

With so many deceptive labels and fad diets circulating, it can be difficult to know what’s actually good for you.

Allison Stowell, M.S., RD, CDN, is the registered dietitian for the Guiding Stars Licensing Company, a company devoted to helping you find the good, better and best choices at the supermarket. A working mom of two, Allison enables individuals to make positive, sustainable changes in their eating habits by stressing conscious eating, improving relationships with food and offering a non-diet approach for reaching and maintaining ideal body weight.