Getting Down to Nutrition: Preserving Your Fall Harvest
By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator Hunting season is upon us and it’s an exciting time of the year. If you’re lucky enough to have notched your tag already, congratulations! It’s always a great feeling to…
Getting down to nutrition: Raspberries pack a nutritional punch!
By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator Raspberries are one fruit that we can grow in Wyoming gardens successfully, so why not talk about how nutritious and versatile they are at the table! Fresh raspberries out of…
Getting Down to Nutrition: Taro: A Staple Crop in the Tropics
By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator While visiting Kauai Hawaii years ago we saw fields full of tropical plants with large green leaves. After visiting with some locals, we found out that they were fields of…
Getting Down to Nutrition: Do Your Part, Care for Your Heart.
By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator Every 36 seconds one person dies from cardiovascular disease in the United States, which is approximately 655,000 Americans dying from heart disease each year. Heart disease is the leading cause…
Getting Down To Nutrition: Mindfully Eating Your Way to Your Health Goals
By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator It’s no secret that a common New Year’s resolution is weight loss. Healthy weight loss requires sustainable lifestyle changes to make it happen. You may have heard of the common…
Getting Down to Nutrition: Utilizing Herbs and Spices
By Shelley Balls, MDA, RD, LD UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator So, what is the difference between an herb and a spice? The most common use of the term herb is used to describe plant leaves used for…
Dietary sugar is a sweeter deal when consumed sparingly
◆ Studies indicate that American adults consume as much as 18 teaspoons a day in added sugars. By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety Educator • The Scoop on Sugar Sugar seems to be a hot topic lately…
Support your New Year weight-loss resolution in wisdom
◆ Successful and healthy weight management is more than limiting calories. By Shelley Balls UW Extension, Nutrition and Food Safety • Healthy Weight Loss: New Year’s is often accompanied by weight loss resolutions, but don’t be fooled by the myriad…
Hubbard receives top honor
The ability to manage multiple projects and willingness to help others prompted the University of Wyoming Extension’s Lincoln-Afton county office associate to receive the organization’s top staff honor for 2020. Jill Hubbard is extension’s Administrative Professional of the Year Award…
Getting down to nutrition
◆ Everything Pumpkin! By Shelley Balls, MDA, RD, LD UW Extension – Nutrition and Food Safety Educator Pumpkin is one type of winter squash that is commonly seen around fall and used for a variety of things such as decoration,…