Category Archives: Nutrition

Run Carrie, Run

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My goal was to run twice a week for two months prior to the July 17 run.  Sounds easy enough but sometimes this was a real challenge and man Nebraska is humid in July.  A few times I walked and ran during my lunch breaks.  I’m sure people thought I looked funny running in dress clothes and running shoes. I was training for a 3 mile run and during my not so rigorous training I didn’t even break a 2 mile
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Adventures with Fresh Produce: Kohlrabi

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“What’s that?!” I was teaching a nutrition class to middle school-age children last summer when a student asked about kohlrabi. An assortment of fresh produce had been dropped off at the school from a local community garden to send home with anyone that could use it. When the student pulled the large kohlrabi bulb out of the grocery bag, I was thinking to myself, “I hope someone else knows what that is.” Fortunately, the class I was teaching was co-instructed by
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Choline – The Hot New Pregnancy Nutrient

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Last year at this time I was pregnant and I didn’t give the nutrient, choline much attention.  After attending a conference last week I wish I would have.  Choline started to get the interest of nutrition researchers when it was found that fetal rats whose mothers didn't get enough choline in their diets had less brain development and poorer memories after birth than those whose mothers ate adequate amounts of the nutrient. Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD, the author of Expect
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