| Welcome to the Eating Healthy portion
of our website! This is your resource for Nutrition
tips, news, and your gateway to getting support
from Registered Dietitian, Maya Laroia.
A New York State native, Maya has an A.O.S. in
Culinary Arts from Johnson & Wales University.
She earned her B.S. in Nutrition Management from
the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed
her dietetic internship through the Saga Graduate
School. She is an accredited Registered Dietician
and a member of The American Dietetic Association.
Ask Maya your nutrition questions! Submit your
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inquiries to Maya Laroia, Registered Dietitian.
Nutrition Comment of the Month -
Heavy Resolutions
Many students return to the second semester
filled with resolve. “I will develop better
study habits. I will stop smoking. I will eat
better.” For some endeavors, an all or nothing
approach may be the answer. When it comes to food,
it almost never is.
- You don’t have to commit to vegetarianism
to get your “five a day.” Just adding
a bowl of soup at lunch, or tossing some vegetables
in with pasta sauce at dinner helps.
- Adding fresh or dried fruit to cereal in
the morning or picking up a smoothie in between
classes are a couple easy ways to boost your
fruit quota.
- Switching from white bread or roll to whole
wheat bread or roll for sandwiches can help
you increase your vitamin and mineral intake.
- A no-fat-whatsoever-diet is not only unhealthy
but difficult to live with. Simply choosing
mustard for mayo, sharing a dessert, or trading
in 2% or whole milk for 1% or skim milk aids
in lowering saturated fat.
Thinking “evolution” instead of “resolution”
may prove to be more effective when it comes to
your lifestyle goals.
Maya Laroia RD
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Topics that students are concerned about such as eating healthfully while away at school, vegetarian nutrition, and eating for fitness are presented in an informal, lively style.
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