Best of 2019 - Food and Health Communications

2019 was a great year on the Food and Health Communications website. We featured many new topics and trends in health, food, nutrition, and sustainability with hundreds of thousands of readers served!

Here are the best articles of the year based on reader popularity:

Here are the highlights, in chronological order with many being series and spanning multiple weeks:

Mediterranean Diet Staples - This series covered all of the ingredient categories of the Mediterranean diet and each one comes with a handout. We researched beans, vegetables, fruits, oils, alcohols, and whole grains from this delicious region.
Biometric Makeover - This series covered all of the ways that diet and lifestyle can help people improve their biometrics, BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.
Set Achievable Goals - A handout to help everyone get started and stay on track with realistic and measurable goals
On Your Plate - this series covered each group from MyPlate
New Food Label Spotlight is a series that covered all of the essential elements from the new food label that is rolling out for 2020
More Plant, Less Cow - What the research says for better health
Fact-Checking: Package Claims Versus Food Label
10 Free Nutrition Handouts
Rainbow Activities
Eating from the Rainbow - Covering All The Colors - a series that was popular over many weeks since it covered red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple items.
White Or Red Meat?
Should We Fear MSG?
Hot Facts for Frozen Meals
Food Neophobia
Dozen Easy Ideas - A Series that helps folks use the least expensive fruits and veggies in many ways all week. The idea is to buy cheap in bulk and serve many ways all week!
9 Great Takeaways from My CIA MPS Program
2019 FNCE Highlights
Feeding Vegetarians on Thanksgiving
Holiday Survival
American Diet - Infogram on News, Media, Fad Diets, Foods

Research highlights for 2019, in chronological order:

Blockbusters

Here are the most popular articles ever published from how to make a salad to how to do a cooking demo!

Judy Doherty

Judy’s passion for cooking began with helping her grandmother make raisin oatmeal for breakfast. From there she earned her first food service job at 15, was accepted to the world famous Culinary Institute of America at 18 (where she graduated second in her class), and went on to the Fachschule Richemont in Switzerland where she focused on pastry arts and baking. But after learning that the quality of a croissant directly varies with how much butter it has, Judy sought to challenge herself by coming up with recipes that were as healthy as they were tasty.

Judy received The Culinary Institute of America’s Pro Chef II certification, the American Culinary Federation Bronze Medal, Gold Medal, and ACF Chef of the Year. Her enthusiasm for eating nutritiously and deliciously leads her to constantly innovate and use the latest in nutritional science to guide her creativity, from putting new twists on fajitas to adapting Italian brownies to include ingredients like toasted nuts and cooked honey. Judy’s publishing company, Food and Health Communications, is dedicated to her vision that everyone can make food that tastes as good as it is for you.