The Aspiring RD

It’s been a crazy few days. I was sent home early from a conference due to a hurricane I didn’t realize was going to hit Boston. Upon coming home I realized I needed to stock up on ice, batteries, ponchos, and wine. The necessities. After a few hours of scouring the internet, emptying my DVR, [...]

Jamie Oliver accepting the Harvard School of Public Health’s Healthy Cup 2012 from Dr. Walter Willett and HSPH Dean Julio Frank Though his childhood dreams may have been more in line with winning a football, or as you Americans say, “soccer,” cup, Jamie Oliver was thrilled to receive the Healthy Cup Award yesterday at the [...]

Picture Source Taste of the Nation (TOTN) hit Boston again recently, showering the city with trays of tasty sliders, pink martinis, and some seriously giant bottles of wine in the silent auction. The annual event, which occurs in cities across the nation, is the “largest and finest culinary benefit supporting the effort to end childhood [...]

It’s a bittersweet day today. May 1st marks the final issue of The Friedman Sprout that I will be contributing to. I am graduating from Friedman on May 20th, and it’s time to move on to new publications and pass the Sprout torch on to new writers. I remember reading the first issue of The [...]

Hello ARD Readers! I am going to start this post a bit non-traditionally with a personal update. As many of you know, I have been finishing my MS at Tufts and not-so-patiently awaiting Match Day, described in my “So, You Want To be An Registered Dietitian” post as the day all future dietitians find out [...]

To continue my popular “Fitness Review” segments (the last was of Bar Method Boston and can be found here) I decided to go into a more calming direction. Why you ask? Well, when you’re an avid spinner and walk multiple miles a day with 15-20 lbs of textbooks on your back, eventually your body starts [...]

A couple weeks ago I posted my You Tube debut and tried to quell your fears about your first spin class. Maybe you weren’t convinced. Maybe spin isn’t your thing (and that’s cool – there is a yoga post coming your way in short order). Maybe running is your thing. (Maybe you’re reading the wrong [...]

When I decided to include restaurant reviews as part of The Aspiring RD I thought, how lucky are my readers? I am going to feature healthy meals outside the home and teach people that you can eat out and still eat well. When I look back at my posts so far I see cheeseburgers, chocolate, [...]

I know I promised updates on all types of things like gourmet school lunches, recent news on multivitamins, and Top Dish Boston, but seeing as I run things over here, I am tabling all those for now in light of BREAKING NEWS. (P.S. – Multivitamins won’t kill you and kids are finally eating lunch because [...]

Hey ARD readers! Some exciting news that came to my attention today – I was unknowingly reviewed by a blogger for RateYourBurn! RateYourBurn is a multi-contributor blog that reviews fitness classes in Boston and New York. According to their website, “Our bloggers are hand-picked fitness nuts who attend fitness activities around their cities (classes, events, [...]