Exam Room Nutrition: Practical Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals

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From First Foods to Family Meals

2026-09-1710:22

This episode is part of our four-part Avocados in Practice mini-series, sponsored by Avocados – Love One Today®. Today, we're exploring practical family nutrition strategies from first foods to family meals. Helping families eat well isn't about creating the perfect meal, it's about finding realistic strategies that work through every stage of childhood. In this final episode of our mini-series, Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, and I discuss common nutrition gaps, first foods, picky eating, an...

The Bigger Picture of Blood Sugar

2026-09-1609:12

This episode is part of our four-part Avocados in Practice mini-series, sponsored by Avocados – Love One Today®. Today, we're asking whether we're focusing on the right things when it comes to diabetes nutrition. When someone is diagnosed with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, nutrition conversations often become all about sugar and carbohydrates. But are we missing the bigger picture? In this episode, Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, joins me to discuss glycemic load, diet quality, and why over...

Rethinking Cholesterol Counseling

2026-09-1509:39

This episode is part of our four-part Avocados in Practice mini-series, sponsored by Avocados – Love One Today®. Today, we're tackling one of the most common nutrition conversations in practice: cholesterol. Nutrition counseling often focuses on what patients should stop eating, but what should we encourage them to eat more of? Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, joins me to discuss the types of food substitutions that can impact cholesterol, how current heart health guidelines support a food-first app...

Why Feeling Full Matters for Weight Loss

2026-09-1410:59

Many patients believe that feeling hungry is simply part of losing weight, but it doesn't have to be. In this episode of our Avocados in Practice mini-series, sponsored by Avocados - Love One Today®, Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, joins me to discuss why satiety matters, what the research says about fullness and foods and nutrients that influence it, and how clinicians can help patients build meals that are both satisfying and nutrient-dense. We also explore common misconceptions about higher-fat ...

168 | Can You Starve Cancer? What the Evidence Says

2026-09-0927:49

Apricot Kernels, Amino Acid Diet & Fasting in Cancer Care. In this episode, I’m joined by oncology dietitian Ginger Hultin to break down some of the biggest cancer nutrition myths circulating online and explain what clinicians should actually be telling patients. We discuss: Whether sugar really “feeds” cancer and what the Warburg effect actually meansThe truth about soy, phytoestrogens, and hormone-sensitive cancersProcessed meat, red meat, and which foods are actually linked to ca...

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Exam Room Nutrition: Practical Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals