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Fresh Focus #31 Interview With Speech Therapy
As a caregiver or someone in a veteran’s support system, you may notice your loved one having difficulty chewing or swallowing certain food items. Veterans with neurol...
Fresh Focus #32: Lack Of Focus While Eating
If you have ever been distracted while eating you know how easy it can happen to any one of us, but when we are concerned when a loved one may not be eating enough, we...
Fresh Focus #33: Caring For The Mealtime Caregiver
Families and caregivers are the Veteran’s support system and help to prevent or manage chronic illness with healthy eating. So whether you find yourself brand new in t...
Fresh Focus #34: Interview With Caregiver Support Program
During a nutrition assessment, your Registered Dietitian Nutritionist will ask a lot of questions to the Veteran, but also to their caregiver. Being a caregiver comes ...
Fresh Focus #35: Getting Started with Gardening
Do you ever seek out your family for advice? Although our Fresh Focus Dietitians are the specialists on planning your plate the healthy way, getting back to your own f...
Fresh Focus #36: Growing, Drying and Using Herbs
Ever tasted a dish and thought to yourself how flavorful it was? Herbs are often used to enhance a dish and raise the flavor profile to a new level. Herbs are sometime...
Fresh Focus #37: Growing Fruit and Vegetables
How many plants are we eating on a routine basis? How many colorful varieties of fruits and vegetables are we consuming on a daily basis? Eating a diet rich in vegetab...
Fresh Focus #38: Picking the Right Produce
When you enter the grocery store have you ever wondered how to choose the best produce? Our food environment today is one where we can pretty much get any food anytime...
Fresh Focus #40: Summer Time Recipes
Now that the weather is starting to warm up, we can get excited about summer recipes! In general, when the weather gets warm, we tend to eat lighter foods unlike the h...
Fresh Focus #39: Summer Cooking
When thinking of summer cooking, usually the first thing we all think of is the grill. However, remember that just because we use this king of summertime cooking every...
Fresh Focus #41: Understanding Pain Basics
Understanding pain response is important. Successful pain management involves setting identified goals and a treatment plan that is agreed upon by patient and Provider...
Fresh Focus #42: Inflammatory Food For Thought
Have you ever wondered if the food you are eating is causing you pain due to inflammation? Inflammation is the body’s protective response against injury, infection, st...
Fresh Focus #43: Lifestyle Habits To Fight Inflammation
Listen in to Fresh Focus episode 43 where the Fresh Focus team welcomes a Registered Dietitian and Integrative and Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner to break...
Fresh Focus #44: Moving With Pain
Did you know that movement, activity, and exercise, can all relate and to pain management? Let Fresh Focus episode 44 get you started by having a discussion on ways to...
Fresh Focus #45: Fighting Inflammation With Your Plate
Chronic inflammation causes our body to stop functioning in a healthy way. What we eat has the power to reduce that inflammation with antioxidants, vitamins, omega 3 f...
Fresh Focus #46: Taking Action With Pain Management
Did you know American Veterans experience higher prevalence of pain and more severe pain than non-Veterans? No matter where you are in your health journey: just starti...
Fresh Focus #47: REWIND Episode 26: Healthy Teaching Kitchen
HTK is dedicated to improving Veterans’ skills and confidence to prepare healthy meals. Increasing Veterans’ self-efficacy with regards to food selection and preparati...
Fresh Focus #48: REWIND Episode 11: Lactation Nutrition
Breastfeeding can be an awesome bonding experience with your baby. Although it provides baby with great nutrition, it can be overwhelming, frustrating, and brings up ...
Fresh Focus #49: Myth - Eating Healthy is too Expensive
Eating healthy is just too expensive. If you have said or thought this exact statement, we as dietitians want to be able to help sort things and come up with the best ...
Fresh Focus #50: Myth - Carbohydrates
Listen along to this episode as Megan Rivenburg, MS, a former dietetic intern at the Bay Pines VA, sorts through the research on carbs. Are they bad for you? Are low-c...
Fresh Focus #51: Myth - Metabolism
Listen in to Fresh Focus episode 51 where we discuss metabolism. We talk about how our bodies need food each day to fuel activities that you don’t even think about- su...
Fresh Focus #52: Myth – The Scale
It seems like in the health care setting we always hear “losing weight is healthy” and “gaining weight is unhealthy.” It seems like there is this thought that the best...
Fresh Focus #53: Myth – Gluten and Dairy
Gluten and dairy and grains, oh my! In this episode of the Fresh Focus podcast’s Myth Busters series, our host Megan Rivenburg, MS, former dietetic intern at the Bay P...
Fresh Focus #54: Myth – Eating Perfectly
We are rounding out the series with a myth that is a big misconception when people come into the world of nutrition- and that is in order to be healthy, it is necessar...
Fresh Focus #55: Celebrating Nutrition in March
March is National Nutrition Month® and is a chance to celebrate eating healthy. National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist day is also in March and is a chance to show...
Fresh Focus #56: Ask the Dietitian
Have you ever seen a VA Dietitian? If not, you might be wondering what to ask once you are in the office. From what’s the best way to lose weight, what to eat when awa...
Fresh Focus #57: Digesting Nutrition from Social Media
It’s common to see misinformation about nutrition. Science is complicated and scientific research can be difficult to critically evaluate. Especially for nutrition, ma...
Fresh Focus #58: Creating Food Diversity on your Plate
March is a whole month dedicated to promote the profession of Nutrition Services as well as delivering nutrition education to the public. A Registered Dietitian Nutrit...
Fresh Focus #59: Building Cooking Confidence with a Simple Ingredient
Listen in on this episode of Fresh Focus, where VA Dietitian, Dr. Joel Hamilton talks all about how to spice up your diet with using an ingredient that you already hav...
Fresh Focus #60: Mealtime Tips from the Healthy Teaching Kitchen
Would you be interested in watching a cooking class demo while being able to be sit in your own kitchen and have the opportunity to cook along with the instructor? Tha...