Yes, we’re once again in depths of the post holiday New Year's resolution ritural. And yes, the most common resolution is: lose those unwanted pounds – again or still. But, think - are you really ready to lose weight and do the daily work to keep off those unwanted pounds?

Warshaw is quoted along with several other RD authors in WebMD story posted 12/10/09 How to Design Your Own Diet.  The story, written by dietitian Elizabeth Ward, offers strategies to figure out a personalized weight loss plan based on individual needs vs. a one-size-fits-all eat this, not that approach. Warshaw is quoted on the topic of healthy restaurant eating and author of Eat Out, Eat Right.

Warshaw joins group of high profile dietitians/nutrition experts to blog on the HEALTHSIMPLE Community's facebook. This community is dedicated to supporting people's efforts to make the all important behavior changes to live healthier and healthfully. Warshaw's blogs deal with current food, eating and nutrition dilemmas for which she offers commonsense and practical solutions. 

Let me begin where I left off discussing the study which asked: What's the Diet is Best?, published in the 2/27/09 issue of New England Journal of Medicine. In closing I noted that this study reinforces that people need continual and continued support  to achieve and maintain weight loss.

The longest (2 years) and largest (~800 people) randomized control trial (the gold standard of studies) reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (2/27/09) was designed to answer the seemingly age-old question What’s the Best Diet for Weight Loss? The study was funded by National Institutes of Health and conducted by leading obesity researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Pennington Research Center in Louisiana. 

The 2010 Dietary Guideline committee is at work revising the 2005 Dietary Guidelines which is mandated by Federal law to be done every five years under the direction of either Health and Human Services (HHS) or U.S. Dept of Agriculture (USDA). HHS took the lead in 2005 and this time around the USDA is taking the lead. The work of the committee and staff will conclude with the publication of the revised guidelines in fall of 2010.

There’s no shortage of nutrition advice—that’s for sure! The near daily headlines encouraging you to eat more of this and less of that, to advertisements that promote more dietary supplements to prevent or cure myriad medical conditions are enough to make your head spin and make it a challenge to separate fact from fiction when it comes to nutrition and healthy eating.

Resistantstarch.com offers Q &A with Warshaw which provides the basics about and benefits of eating more resistant starch. Also pick up pointers to increase your resistant starch intake. Gather more tips and tactics for healthy eating whether you want to prevent diabetes or manage it in Warshaw's best-selling book Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy.

Key learnings from my recent attendance at the American Diabetes Association meeting are sinking in. One clear take away on the nutrition front is the push to eat more fiber for all its health benefits including disease prevention, increased satiety, help with weight control and more.

Skinny vs. Healthy 

The following is the interview Amy Tenderich of diabetesmine.com, award winning blogger posted on 2/26/08