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Janet–This is great, and so packed with good info. Love the graphics, too. Lisa

Congrats on the new site, Janet…it’s great! I hate those “Sneaky Chef” cookbooks! I’m lucky that my girls eat their vegetables pretty happily but it took some time. They might not be their first choice, but they eat them without me having to beg. Meat on the otherhand is where we struggle…they aren’t canivores (yet) like their parents! Will continue to read…congrats again.

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Great blog! Looking forward to hearing more from you and not having to wait for articles in the Trib. I love your approach to food and educating the public.

Sorry just noticed that I made a mistake in my new e-mail. Should be jmurray@topco.com

Hi Janet,
Thank you so much for your time and effort on your blog—it truly is my favorite.
I also really appreciated your bold review today of “The Donald” and his nutrition pyramid scheme. Right on!

Take care,
Ruth

I can see your point , but I have a child that gags everytime he eats a vegetable. so just what is your suggestion for that? So I will continue to do what I think is best for my 4 children. Don’t bother me with your anecdotes.

Your article on Trump Health was so timely! I bought into the scheme, ordering the $500 starter pack, and luckily tried the foods and read the labels before selling to anyone else. What a bunch of junk! The foods are terrible, the drinks gagworthy (I had to brush my teeth for 10 minutes to get rid of the disgusting taste), the vitamins have less nutrients than One a Day cheap brand at the drugstore. And he claims the diet program is not really expensive because “remember it replaces your normal foods.” Really? How many single people spend $1325 per month for food? It’s hard to believe with all his money he didn’t try the products first and refine them. As is, there is no way they can get repeated business – who in the world would pay so much to get such hideous products amd then . . . keep doing it (re-ordering)? That leaves the only true reason to do this at all – multi-level earnings. As my upline manager said to me “we’re really selling the opportunity, not the food.” Isn’t that the very definition of Ponzi? Don’t you have to sell the product first to escape that legal label? Sorry, Donald, this time YOU”RE fired!

Nope, Stier is wrong. Obesity is not as simple as “calories in versus calories out”. Our bodies are not simply calorie “buckets”. If that were true, dieting would work. I know better, and if he is interested, he can contact me.

Your articles and site are incredibly interesting and well written…I’m looking forward to your recipes and posts in 2010. Happy Holidays.
Best,
The Healthy Apple

Maria,
Thanks for visiting, and thanks for your positive comments. I do strive to serve up science-based information, and provide readers with the facts about nutrition.
If you read my article again about the Trump Network, it’s talking about the PRODUCTS. I don’t care how they’re sold. It’s the products and the claims that are being made that disturb me. Even if they were sold only in health food stores, I would have the same concern. They just happened to be sold via MLM. I’m not criticizing the entire MLM business model, but it does concern me that unqualified dealers are dishing up nutrition advice to sell these products. I don’t think these comments go beyond my scope of practice. I think it’s important for people to realize that the truth about these products and about the tests that are recommended. Sorry, but I’m sticking to what I know.

I read your article on Trump Network and found it to be a bit biased, one-sided and lacking in credibility. While I respect your knowledge about nutrition and your opinions (you have very right to your own opinions as we all do), I felt the need to respond to the article. The MLM/network marketing business model is not that much different from a standard profit oriented company. Let’s get real – all companies produce products that are marketable to produce profitability. Whether the products are sold via network marketing or directly on line or via a store (health food store, etc.), there is a wholesale value, a retail value and everyone along the way makes profit. That is the capitalist system. I have found many of the MLM/Network marketing products superior to what can be purchased in stores, most likely to reduced advertising and packaging costs, so more money is allocated to product quality. As far as the MLM structure, a similar structure exists in most traditional companies – just take a look at an organizational chart and you will see a pyramid compensation plan. Enough about MLM’s.
Mr. Trump is not a nutritionist and does not claim to be. He became involved with a company whose products have been helping people for over 10 years and whose products were designed by nutritionists, dieticians, MD’s, Ph’d's, etc. Personally, I am not impressed with credentials as much as I am about the way individuals use them. After all, the dieticians and nutritionists who decided on our children’s public school lunch menus in my opinion prove that credentials mean nothing, if not used appropriately. I agree with you that everyone’s primary source of nutrition should be real, unprocessed food. However, in the real world, supplementation and even once in a while processed foods fill a need. I don’t need a nutritionist to tell me that I don’t need supplementation – I know my body and know that I feel better overall, have more energy and am healthier with high quality supplements, despite my otherwise balanced and healthy diet. In fact, there is quite a bit of evidence to support the fact that most people are wise to supplement. As far as TumpNetwork products, the vitamins are customized based on metabolic testing through a well respected lab – Metametrix. Your lack of knowledge regarding the lab’s testing and the basis for determining the customized formulation is misleading. I recommend that you investigate the lab’s work and the science behind the testing. Urinalysis testing cannot measure the nutrient content in your body, it can measure how effectively your body is metabolizing and using the nutrients you ingest. Please do your research. As far as the products are concerned, after trying many types of protein bars, snacks, etc., including the ones my family eats, the products are of excellent quality and tastes great.. Perhaps the higher price is based on the ingredients, especially the higher amounts of protein in each serving of diet and children’s snack products. In the practical world, although eating real food is preferable, our children and many adults are endangering their health with all the junk food available in the stores. As a transitional option, it would make sense to consider great tasting snacks w/more wholesome ingredients and more protein. Do you really think you are going to get Doritos, potato chip and candy eaters to instantly switch to carrots, apples and nuts? My son tested the children’s snacks and gave them a thumb’s up. I’ve witnessed other children do the same. I prefer their protein/diet bars to any that I’ve found on the market. So rather than fire Trump as the nutritionist he never claimed he was, I’d congratulate him for partnering with an established company that creates great products. Thank you for creating this site and I look forward to investigating what seem like healthy dietary choices! And Darla, I respect your opinion on the products, however many people do like them. When a pair of MD’s who scrutinized and analyzed the ingredients of the weight loss products as well as all the science behind them, prior to introducing them into their practice, informed me on now the products have helped their patients, I tend to believe it. Your comparing these vitamins to a one a day is absurd. The Trump custom vitamins have medicinal grade nutrients, including minerals, amino acids, digestive enzymes and phytonutrients in a whole food base. The products have proven to be highly bioavailable – significantly more than junk vitamins like one-a- day. These vitamins and others of high quality are more efficiently absorbed by the body.
You can feel the difference. Finally, the fact that they are customized makes sense, since a standard one-a-day type is one size fits all. Too much of a nutrient can be just as harmful as too little of one, based on what your body needs. So a higher level of nutrient in a one-a-day does not necessarily mean it’s healthier for you. Finally, you don’t need as much quantity in a nutritional product whose ingredients are of better quality and whose formulation more bioavailable to your body! Thank you Janet for this forum and for a site that appears to be filled w/great tips on eating healthy!

janet,

i was raised on Kombu-cha, and not familiar with the definition of it except for:

Kombu-in Japanese means kelp
Cha-means tea
Konbu-cha, kelp tea, which taste more like sea water but in the same time very good for you.

I read your article on Trump Network and found it to be a bit biased, one-sided and lacking in credibility. While I respect your knowledge about nutrition and your opinions (you have very right to your own opinions as we all do), I felt the need to respond to the article. The MLM/network marketing business model is not that much different from a standard profit oriented company. Let’s get real – all companies produce products that are marketable to produce profitability. Whether the products are sold via network marketing or directly on line or via a store (health food store, etc.), there is a wholesale value, a retail value and everyone along the way makes profit. That is the capitalist system. I have found many of the MLM/Network marketing products superior to what can be purchased in stores, most likely to reduced advertising and packaging costs, so more money is allocated to product quality. As far as the MLM structure, a similar structure exists in most traditional companies – just take a look at an organizational chart and you will see a pyramid compensation plan. Enough about MLM’s.Mr. Trump is not a nutritionist and does not claim to be. He became involved with a company whose products have been helping people for over 10 years and whose products were designed by nutritionists, dieticians, MD’s, Ph’d’s, etc. Personally, I am not impressed with credentials as much as I am about the way individuals use them. After all, the dieticians and nutritionists who decided on our children’s public school lunch menus in my opinion prove that credentials mean nothing, if not used appropriately. I agree with you that everyone’s primary source of nutrition should be real, unprocessed food. However, in the real world, supplementation and even once in a while processed foods fill a need. I don’t need a nutritionist to tell me that I don’t need supplementation – I know my body and know that I feel better overall, have more energy and am healthier with high quality supplements, despite my otherwise balanced and healthy diet. In fact, there is quite a bit of evidence to support the fact that most people are wise to supplement. As far as TumpNetwork products, the vitamins are customized based on metabolic testing through a well respected lab – Metametrix. Your lack of knowledge regarding the lab’s testing and the basis for determining the customized formulation is misleading. I recommend that you investigate the lab’s work and the science behind the testing. Urinalysis testing cannot measure the nutrient content in your body, it can measure how effectively your body is metabolizing and using the nutrients you ingest. Please do your research. As far as the products are concerned, after trying many types of protein bars, snacks, etc., including the ones my family eats, the products are of excellent quality and tastes great.. Perhaps the higher price is based on the ingredients, especially the higher amounts of protein in each serving of diet and children’s snack products. In the practical world, although eating real food is preferable, our children and many adults are endangering their health with all the junk food available in the stores. As a transitional option, it would make sense to consider great tasting snacks w/more wholesome ingredients and more protein. Do you really think you are going to get Doritos, potato chip and candy eaters to instantly switch to carrots, apples and nuts? My son tested the children’s snacks and gave them a thumb’s up. I’ve witnessed other children do the same. I prefer their protein/diet bars to any that I’ve found on the market. So rather than fire Trump as the nutritionist he never claimed he was, I’d congratulate him for partnering with an established company that creates great products. Thank you for creating this site and I look forward to investigating what seem like healthy dietary choices! And Darla, I respect your opinion on the products, however many people do like them. When a pair of MD’s who scrutinized and analyzed the ingredients of the weight loss products as well as all the science behind them, prior to introducing them into their practice, informed me on now the products have helped their patients, I tend to believe it. Your comparing these vitamins to a one a day is absurd. The Trump custom vitamins have medicinal grade nutrients, including minerals, amino acids, digestive enzymes and phytonutrients in a whole food base. The products have proven to be highly bioavailable – significantly more than junk vitamins like one-a- day. These vitamins and others of high quality are more efficiently absorbed by the body.You can feel the difference. Finally, the fact that they are customized makes sense, since a standard one-a-day type is one size fits all. Too much of a nutrient can be just as harmful as too little of one, based on what your body needs. So a higher level of nutrient in a one-a-day does not necessarily mean it’s healthier for you. Finally, you don’t need as much quantity in a nutritional product whose ingredients are of better quality and whose formulation more bioavailable to your body! Thank you Janet for this forum and for a site that appears to be filled w/great tips on eating healthy!
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Hi
I am so glad these lawsuits are happening maybe america will wake up and stop taking this crap. It’s loaded with stimulants like caffeind, gauanna, taurine etc… People need to stop looking for the “magic pill” and take responsibility for what the eat and do. Her products are the result of her on the show and the almighty dollar-SHE IS AN FN SELLOUT- like Jake Steinfeld of body by jake crap fitness products. Where is he now? I carry several certifications and a degree in Corporate Fitness/Wellness with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology. What does she carry but PR and on a show. The people on the Biggest Loser get low cal healthy foods, trainers and workouts that 99 percent of us do not have access to or can afford. These products she endorses are for her pocket book and I know she does not help in its creation or know or more importantly understands what is in it. She should be sued and so should a lot of other fitness products and equipment that lay unrealistic claims. But when she said on the Biggest Loser show that “she is the worlds best trainer and everyone wants to hire her” arrogance like this will be her downfall and now look at her. People like her give the fitness industry a bad name and unsafe products a push all for money.

Janet,

Keep coddling the American public. By justifying our poor eating habits you are giving them a license to continue to poison themselves with the crap they eat. I’ve done the Master Cleanse many times and I feel the positives far outweigh the negatives. My daughter was diagnosed with celiac disease two years ago. My wife and I elected to join her on a gluten-free diet, even though neither one of us was tested or diagnosed with celiac. I have felt nothing but benefits from a gluten free diet. Is it difficult? Yes! Is it worth it? Absolutely! By the way I do mean a strictly gluten free diet. Bloated stomachs, fibromyalgia, migraines, these issues can all be attributed to, in one way or another, food allergies and processed food consumption. I consume 3 to 4 ounces of Bragg’s apple cider vinegar daily to alkalize the water contain in my body. Most diseases can be attributed to the PH imbalance in our bodies. It’s wonderful that you are a registered dietitian, but to be honest why don’t you actually try naturally healing your body before talking about how these so called FAD diets are bad for you. Living and eating healthy is difficult enough without you raging against what some of us are trying so hard to do. We could discuss this in length and if you would like. I would really like to know how you feel doing what is unorthodox is bad for you.

Wow. Substitute the words “exercise science” for “nutrition” (in your “About Janet Helm” blurb) and sweet jayzus, those are my thoughts exactly.

Count me a fan. I’m in.

If you’re bored and/or mildly curious, check out the stuff we write about over at FitminusFiction. Same mindset, related topic. I’m a writer + my significant other has a PhD in Physiology (worked in a cardiac lab), and a Masters in Exercise Science (worked with athletes to geriatrics in rehab & training), and it simply got old hearing him explain the same truths to people over and over again. “There’s so much misinformation floating around,” we said to ourselves, “Why doesn’t somebody just put the truth out there?”

Oh. You mean, like us?

And a blog was born. Anyhoo, thanks for being a fellow health-legit. (ahem,dietitianvs.nutritionist)

Hi Nery,
Thanks for visiting. While I’m happy to answer any of your questions related to topics on my blog, I don’t feel comfortable giving you specific nutrition advice. I hope you and your wife will discuss your questions with a registered dietitian. It’s especially important since your wife has diabetes. There are many great dietitians who specialize in diabetes. Contact your local hospital if you need help finding a dietitian. All the best, Janet

Great information and a well site. I find it very difficult to eat the right amount of fruits and vegetables per as recommended by Health Departments and find it costly. It is almost impossible to find vine ripen fruits and vegetables, everything gets picked long before the nutritional value is there. Juice Plus helps fill that gap with 17 vine ripen fruits and vegetables in capsule form now in chewables.

Hey, Janet,

Thought you might have the answer to a question that seems to be popping up a lot here in Texas. Today’s Fort Worth Telegram posted an article on the popularity of raw milk and how the Texas legistlature might be considering a bill that would allow it to be sold not only on the farm itself (“point of production” as required now) but also at farmer’s markets and farm stands. Yet on the radio lately, I have been hearing ads talking about the danger of drinking unpastuarized milk and it claims that no nutrients are removed by pasturization (while the news article claims it destoys the benefeficial microorganisms). Perhaps the radio spots are a direct response to this upcoming debate over Texas House Bill 75. What are your thoughts? Is this bill a good thing or not? I know you have “milk” connections and would love to hear what you have to say on the topic.

Carolyn Birch Swann

Is your site a wordpress theme? I really like it.

Hi–Chef John Marsh has recently opened his restaurant using farm to table locally sustainable and/or organic ingredients which should make all our moms real happy!

A MOTHER’S DAY CELEBRATION INSPIRED BY…MOM.

Chef John Marsh and his partners at Greensquare Tavern, the new farm-to-table
restaurant at 5 West 21st Street, are offering Mother’s Day specials inspired by
their own moms.

“My mother was an amazing gardener and a terrific home cook,” Chef John Marsh
recalls. “Local ingredients meant our back yard.”

Partners Larry McIntyre and Leon Bell also credit their mothers with inspiring a
life-long love of food. For Leon’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, “food is life.
Food is love.”

Along with its regular menu, Greensquare Tavern will feature a $45 Prix fixe
menu with a choice of appetizer, salad, entrée and dessert including the
Mother’s Day specials below:

* Jane Marsh’s delicious Pan-roasted Striped Bass with citrus herb sauce,
caramelized onion mashed Yukon potato & sauteed swiss chard.

* Rita McIntyre’s famous Lasagna Bolognese with handmade pasta sheets, ground
beef, veal & pork; three secret cheeses & homemade marinara served with sautéed
broccoli rabe.

* Celia Bell’s Veal Scallopini with roasted shallot demi-glaze, risotto
Milanese & sautéed spinach.

For reservations call 212-929-2468 or visit greensquaretavern.com. Of course,
all moms will leave with a beautiful rose to cap their meal.

Small plates: $9 – $10
Medium plates: $13 – $19
Entrees: $23 – $26

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Janet,
This looks like an awesome site with lots of great information. I started a nutrition website of my own this summer and I was wondering if you have any advice to increase visibility. I just want to get the information out to as many people as possible. Let me know, when you get a chance. Thanks

Warm Regards,

Lucas

Janet
Just came across the website and found it to be one that should be included in the recommended readings’ section in college course list.
I have a query, see I am intrigued by the fact that the tannins, flavonoids, phenolic acids containing grains are always processed to reduce their activity. In view of their anti nutritional activity (which is mainly protein linked), it seems okay but when preparing it with a therapeutic motive, say a flour for people with NCDs, do we really want to reduce their quantity and thus the antioxidant activity?
Regards
Jaya

Very nice post. I simply stumbled upon your blog and wished to mention that I have truly loved browsing your blog posts. In any case I will be subscribing in your rss feed and I’m hoping you write again very soon!

Janet,
My uncle is looking to purchase “black rice bran” for health reasons. We are desperately searching. Can you help? We don’t want to purchase the incorrect kind. Thank You.

Dear Janet,

I was trying to subscribe to your blog but since I do not use a web based news reader, I am unable to email-subscribe to your blog. I prefer the latter option since I can simply open the latest post and read them within the email. Please do go to your Feedburner Options and add the email subscribe link too for readers like us to follow your blog.

Thanks

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