By Chelsea Fuchs MS, dietetic intern at Teachers College, Columbia University This post is the second part of my series on integrative nutrition and the management of food intolerances and allergies in children. Since the first post purely focused on food...
By Chelsea Fuchs MS, dietetic intern at Teachers College, Columbia University Interview with with Mary Beth Augustine, a leading expert in the field of integrative and functional nutrition. What is integrative and functional nutrition? For those of you unfamiliar with...
By Chelsea Fuchs MS, Dietetic Intern at Teachers College, Columbia University While my series of prenatal posts have mainly focused on achieving optimal nutrition during pregnancy, I thought it was also important to address another health related topic: physical...
By Chelsea Fuchs MS, Dietetic Intern at Teachers College, Columbia University. If you have a little one on the way and you’re following a vegan diet, you might want to listen up. All vegans are at a very high risk for calcium deficiency, and pregnant women need to be...
This post is a continuation to the first blog in the series on prenatal nutrition for vegetarian and vegans by Chelsea Fuchs MS, Dietetic Intern from Teachers College, Columbia University. In my first post here I addressed macronutrient requirements for vegan or...
This post opens a pregnancy nutrition series by Chelsea Fuchs MS, a Dietetic Intern from Teachers College, Columbia University. While there is a substantial amount of research on prenatal nutrition, little information exists for expectant moms following a vegetarian...
My family loves chocolate. We favor darker, more flavorful varieties which also happen to be healthier because they are lower in fat and sugar and higher in antioxidants. The kids are so used to dark chocolate that they often prefer to the more "kid-friendly" milk...
We all, as parents, try to do our best to provide our children with nutritious food. But our good intentions can be ruined by our busy schedules or kids’ picky eating habits. It is especially difficult to come up with ideas for packed lunches that would be both...
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I am Natalia, a registered dietitian, child nutritionist and mom of three. I love helping families raise healthy and happy eaters, resolve feeding problems, eat well with food allergies and enjoy family meals in simple and delicious ways.