Stay Connected:
facebook
twitter
rss
facebook
twitter
rss Fast Food Vindication
workmom blogs
Browse the topics @home and @work. Engage with leading bloggers who offer advice on family and career as well as share stories about our rich workmom experience. Share your comments.browse by
Recent Posts
Lisa Tillinger Johansen is a Los Angeles-based Registered Dietitan who counsels her patients and clients on how to eat for a healthy life. With teaching posts at Southern California’s largest hospital network, federal grant programs, and community outreach endeavors, Johansen applies her years of clinical experience toward helping others achieve their nutrition goals.
Lisa helps her patients and clients find a realistic plan that works for them. In this fast-paced world, it is not always easy to prepare home-cooked meals. Lisa helps her patients and clients devise nutrition strategies for eating on the go, whether at sit-down restaurants or even fast-food establishments. fastfoodvindication.com
I often say that sugar substitutes, aka artificial sweeteners, can evoke a similar emotion among us as politics often does. Many of us embrace a candidate wholeheartedly, others cautiously dip in a toe or two, while there’s another group of us who are ardently ag ... Read more...
I was recently asked a question about meal planning and diabetes. This is important, because food affects blood sugar and it’s essential that diabetics manage their blood sugar. If they don’t, they put themselves at potential risk of complications such as heart ... Read more...
I get so many nutrition- and health-related questions through my Facebook page (Lisa Tillinger Johansen) and from my web site (www.fastfoodvindication.com). Thank you for sending them and I’m happy to answer them ... Read more...
I’m a dietitian. I’m a nutrition expert and I use this knowledge to help thousands of people every year on a variety of health issues. I know what I’m talking about and I’ve helped people make changes and achieve great results. But I’m also human. I also walk th ... Read more...
I tuned in to the Golden Globes tonight and I’m sure that I was like so many of us who enjoy watching the Hollywood elite work the red carpet. I love to see w ... Read more...
The holiday season, from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, is one that is often filled with food, food and more food. We all know that it can be a calorie minefield. There are parties, family meals, and the seemingly all-day dessert and high calorie snack buf ... Read more...
A reader or writer, which would I rather be? What a question that is! I love both so much and to choose one or the other is difficult. It’s the perfect conundrum.
As it turns out, I’ve been reading and writing for most of my life, since I was a little gir ... Read more...
Change can be hard. Many of us, including myself, go kicking and screaming into it. It’s just not always that easy to do. Why? Because we’re creatures of habit. We like we what we like and we want to do what we always do. But sometimes life gets i ... Read more...
I’ve recently been asked about crash diets, an eating pattern that is very short-term, perhaps even just a few days, in order to lose a few pounds. A fad diet is also short-term, but for many is thought of differently than a crash diet. The reality is that they’re v ... Read more...
Where is it often easier to consume more calories in one meal than you need in a whole day: fast food or sit-down restaurants? If you shouted out “fast food,” you’re wrong. Surprised? You’re definitely not the only one. Why is this the case? Let’s delve into jus ... Read more...
