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Best Beverage Choices For Diabetes

Even if you eat a perfect type 2 diabetes diet, what you drink can wreak havoc on your diabetes management. Oftentimes, what people drink is overlooked as a reason for their high blood sugars. Beverag...

Healthy Eating is About Feeling Great

Healthy eating is not just a matter of maintaining a specific weight or adhering to dietary rules, it is fundamentally about enhancing how you feel on a daily basis. This involves more than just eatin...

Easy Diabetic Diet for Beginners: 4 Tips &Tricks

Most forms of diabetes are manageable with proper medical care and maintainable lifestyle changes. If you have been newly diagnosed with diabetes, it may be hard to know where to start. Our dietitians...

Summertime Snacks To Satisfy Your Cravings

During the summer temptation lies everywhere, which means watching your diet, planning ahead, and not setting yourself up for binging is very important. Be careful with snack traps that can lead you d...

All About Processed Foods

Most people associate the term “processed food” with unhealthy food. While that is sometimes the case, it is not true 100% of the time. How do you know if what you are eating is healthy? H...

Getting More Energy From Your Diet

Energy is something most of us want more of and we often seek it in form of caffeine or sugar as a quick fix, but that only last for so long before crashing. Sometimes we all need extra energy to tack...

Eat This Not That During the Holidays

Ah, the holidays, aka "cookie season!" A time of wonderful food, sweets and indulgences. Weeks of consuming high sugar, refined cookies and snacks can leave you feeling drained, sluggish, and unmotiva...

Is Sugar Bad for You?

A lot of people are wondering now “Is sugar bad for you?” We have moved from fat being the item we all obsess over on the food label to now focusing on sugar. The answer isn’t an all...

Are "Net Carbs" Important for Weight Loss?

It is very likely if you’re reading this you have been hit by the low-carb and keto craze over the last few years. It seems like everywhere you turn there are remnants of this diet trend. This c...

Are Your Headaches Linked to Your Diet?

Next time you are out at a public event, glance around and try to keep track of every sixth person that walks by you. Did you struggle? Was it too many people to count? According to the National Libra...

What to Eat & Drink to Avoid Summer Weight Gain

The sun is out in full force and the temperatures are rising! For many, this means cookouts, barbecues, vacations, and fun in the sun. For others, this means struggling with eating healthy, controllin...

Best and Worst Foods For Your Heart

Heart disease is considered a ‘silent killer’ of women and coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death globally. We must help get the word out about ways to combat the disease. Wh...

Cut Added Sugar? Seattle Sutton's ALWAYS has!

The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 include the recommendation to reduce added sugars in the diet to less than 10% of total calories. A scientific advisory group criticized t...

Living Healthy with Diabetes and Prediabetes

November marks American Diabetes Awareness Month, a time for us to raise awareness about diabetes prevention, treatment, and risks. According to the CDC's 2023 National Diabetes Statistics Report, ove...

Healthy Recipe Swaps for Your Fall Comfort Foods

We’ve officially entered fall, the time when cooler temperatures and changing leaves lead many of us reaching for our cozy sweaters, warm drinks, and favorite comfort foods. What do you think of...

The Lowdown on Sugar Substitutes: A Look at New Research

Alyssa Salz | Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Sugar substitutes are often a go-to for people looking to cut calories and carbohydrates in their diets to be ‘healthier.’ However, the...

Avoiding Empty Calories

A calorie is defined as a unit of energy. In the same way that we put fuel into vehicles to make them run, we must also put calories into our bodies to essentially “fuel” them. Maintaining...

Good Sugar Vs. Bad Sugar

There are two types of sugar - added sugar, which includes the familiar white granulated “table sugar” (sucrose), as well as concentrated sources like fruit juice, and then there are natur...