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04/28/2026

Are you still counting calories?

04/28/2026

Stop sleeping on chocolate milk. A registered dietitian says it’s one of the best post-workout recovery drinks you can have — electrolytes, calcium, magnesium, and protein all in one. Would you try it as a recovery drink?

04/27/2026

had a patient who wanted to lose weight and knew she was drinking too much. So they started there. She stopped drinking, changed her habits, and felt better than she had in years.

But she didn’t lose a pound.

Vanessa recommended she try a GLP-1 medication. She lost 25 pounds in seven weeks, had zero adverse side effects, and is now off the drug. The reason it worked so well? She had already done the foundational work of changing how she ate before starting the medication.

That’s the part most people skip. GLP-1s can be a powerful tool, but they’re not a standalone solution. If you’re taking one without changing your eating habits, you’re more likely to experience the side effects and less likely to keep the results.

Lifestyle and behavior change come first. Medication can accelerate what’s already working. A registered dietitian helps you build that foundation so the tool actually does its job.

04/27/2026

The product was Dynatrim, a meal replacement shake that spent $45 million in advertising trying to convince Americans that drinking powder mixed with water was a viable substitute for eating.

The pitch was the same one the entire meal replacement industry ran on throughout the 90s: stop eating real food, drink this instead, watch the weight disappear. Slim-Fast, Dynatrim, MetRx, they all sold the same promise in different packaging.

Dynatrim didn’t survive. Most of these products didn’t. But the idea that skipping meals and replacing them with a processed shake is a legitimate long-term strategy is still being sold today, just with better branding and a wellness label on it.

Eating real food isn’t the problem. It never was.

04/25/2026

Culina Health’s co-founder and CEO knew something was wrong before anyone believed her.

No lumps. No bumps. Nothing showing up on scans. But she kept waking up in the middle of the night convinced she had cancer. Everyone thought she was overreacting.

Then a routine mammogram found calcifications. Could be nothing, could be cancer. And then the wait: from May until July 13th, a date she’ll never forget, because that was her first round of chemo.

She called her friends and told them to help push things along. Two days later, the diagnosis was confirmed.

If something feels off in your body, keep pushing. You know yourself better than anyone else does.

04/24/2026

In a 60 Minutes segment, an MRI scan showed sugar lighting up the brain’s reward regions and triggering dopamine release in patterns researchers compared to drugs and alcohol. That’s the science of why sugar is so good at getting our attention.

Here’s what that doesn’t mean: that sugar is evil, that you need to quit it, or that wanting something sweet is a moral failure. Reward pathways are how humans are built. The question worth asking is what role sugar is playing in your specific life, your specific health, and your specific goals.

That’s the conversation a registered dietitian is trained to have with you. At Culina Health, our RDs help you understand your body without shame or restriction, and most insurance plans cover the work.

04/23/2026

No, you don’t need to eat slabs of beef three meals a day to regulate your blood sugar.

breaks down why elimination diets feel like they “work” in the short term and why they’re not doing you any favors long-term. We evolved to eat a varied diet for a reason. Cutting out entire food groups isn’t a strategy, it’s a restriction with an expiration date.

The real move? Eat a balanced, varied diet and work with someone who actually understands the science. Your insurance likely covers sessions with a registered dietitian who can help you build a plan that doesn’t require you to give up fruit.

Tap the link in bio to check your coverage. 🔗

04/19/2026

That Diet Pepsi ad is a nostalgic reminder of how diet sodas were sold as a path to effortless confidence and happiness. The implicit promise was that the drink itself could deliver self-acceptance. Although the marketing playbook may have changed, the underlying message persists. Today, we know that true health and wellness come from working with a qualified professional who understands your unique needs and circumstances. At Culina Health, our registered dietitians provide personalized care, and most insurance plans cover our services.

04/18/2026

In a 60 Minutes segment, Harvard’s Dr. Lewis Cantley explains that nearly a third of common cancers, including some breast and colon cancers, have insulin receptors on their surface. When insulin spikes, it can signal those tumors to take up glucose and grow.

This doesn’t mean sugar causes cancer, and it doesn’t mean you need to cut carbs. It means how your body manages blood sugar matters, and it’s worth understanding.

This is exactly the kind of question a registered dietitian can help you think through based on your actual health history, not a headline. At Culina Health, every clinician is a board-certified RD, and most insurance plans cover working with one.

Save this for the next time you see a scary sugar headline.

04/16/2026

Frosted Flakes. Lucky Charms. Cocoa Krispies. All sold to kids as “part of a nutritious breakfast” or “part of a complete breakfast.” The cereal was the star. The orange juice and toast in the background were there to launder the health claim.

A generation grew up internalizing that sugar-coated cereal was breakfast food, and that anything with milk next to it counted as balanced. Then the same generation spent their 30s and 40s trying to untangle why their relationship with food feels so complicated.

This is why working with a registered dietitian isn’t about willpower or restriction. It’s about unlearning decades of food messaging that was built to sell, not to nourish.

Link in bio to get matched with an RD. 🔗

Most visits are covered by insurance.

04/15/2026

Alcohol is a Class 1 carcinogen. That’s the same category as asbestos and to***co. doesn’t say this to scare you. She says it because she’s lived it. As a breast cancer survivor on tamoxifen, she’s knows firsthand how alcohol interferes with the medication designed to keep cancer from coming back.

The research is clear: alcohol reduces your body’s ability to burn fat, process medications, and protect itself. For breast cancer survivors on tamoxifen, drinking actively undermines the drug’s efficacy.

She’s not telling you what to do. She’s giving you what most people never get from their feed: the actual science, from someone with the clinical training and the personal experience to back it up.

There’s a difference between nutrition advice on the internet and care from a credentialed RD.

Link in bio to get matched with one. Most visits are covered by insurance. 🔗

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