Bridget Swinney, MS RD

Food Safety 2.0 You may be hyper-aware of food safety issues in the summer. You know the drill—don’t keep food at room temperature longer than 2 hours; 1 hour if […]

A Dietitian’s Take on the Latest Diet Trends Swimsuit season is here and you may have noticed that you have a few pounds that have crept up over the sedentary winter months. Tempted by some of […]

The Health Benefits of Mushrooms Should I Eat More Fungi? The lowly fungi family may not top your list of healthy veggies, but hang on, you’re about to get “vegucated” about mushr […]

Move Past the Resolutions Most of us know what we should do to improve our health. The problem is, it’s not always easy to get from here to there. Even the most w […]

Bits of Plastic Picking up bits of plastic from a white sandy beach in the Caribbean is not necessarily living the vacation dream. But it’s how I spent many m […]

Food Budget Redo: Is it Time? It’s been a rough couple of years for the family budget! A pandemic– which closed many businesses and led to job losses and supply chain i […]

This summer, it’s hot as usual, and who wants to heat up the kitchen? That’s why in the summer, we do things a little differently, relying more on main dish salads, grilled foods and easy to put together meals and […]

Out of the blue, a friend of mine recently asked a group of us what the top thing on our bucket list was. My bucket list is all about places I want to travel to someday, so I said the Galapagos Islands. (I bet […]

When it comes to nutrition, balance can mean many things. Let’s start with the main components of your plate.

Eating healthy is actually pretty simple if you use the “plate method” recommended by USDA and the A […]

New acquaintances are often surprised to find out that I eat pasta (and bread and chocolate and even dessert on occasion) because my life’s career has been spent helping people have healthier diets. Just for the r […]

Each year the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a professional group of over 110,000 credentialed nutrition and dietetics practitioners focuses attention on National Nutrition Month® during the month of […]

Part 2 of the Tropical Oil Series
Ahhh coconut oil. If you believe everything you read about this uber-popular health food, you’d believe it to be the cure you’ve been looking for to help you lose weight and imp […]

It’s January, so maybe you’re looking at making 2022 a little healthier than 2021! If so, that means you’re probably reading those Nutrient Facts labels more carefully. You’ve probably also noticed: palm oil is […]

The theme this month is “unplug”, though I’m going to suggest the opposite, at least where your health is concerned! However—temporarily unplugging from information about your health could be very healthy. Consult […]

Some people have trouble with boundaries. I still remember during that “fun” time of pre-adolescence, when my Aunt came to visit. The first words out of her mouth were, “Oh Mary Bridget, you’ve put on weight. […]

Bridget Swinney Bridget Swinney is a health communicator, award-winning author and well-regarded nutrition expert specializing in teaching people to embrace a […]

You can’t fool mother nature. And if you try, mother nature always wins. Which is why on this Earth Day, we all need to do our part to reduce our carbon footprint. This can also help you be a healthier eater and s […]

As I was growing up, I often had vivid dreams which I would recount at the breakfast table. There was one recurring dream which I remember to this day, at least a small piece of it and the message it delivered to […]

I decided to put myself in Time OUT.  Not anything I did wrong but my husband has been diagnosed with COVID.  We are insulated in a quarantine bubble in our home, away from those we love, those we care about, a […]