It is no surprise that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and heart disease. However, did you know that smoking may also affect how our bodies absorb nutrients, suppress our appetite, and contribute to poor food choices?…Continue to read.
In case you have not heard, Brower Dining Hall has stepped down after 62 years of serving all of College Avenue’s hungry students. In the meantime, it is being replaced with a new dining concept, The Atrium. This modernized food court…Continue to read.
Cold and flu season is here, which means you may already be familiar with vitamin C through attempts to alleviate your symptoms. But what do you really know about this powerful water-soluble vitamin? Benefits of vitamin C range from…Continue to read.
While Rutgers dining halls provide extensive daily menus, inevitably there comes a point when you may want to switch up your dining hall favorites. Let us unveil the Rutgers Dining Hall Secret Menu. With a little creativity during mealtime, you can access…Continue to read.
Double, double, toil and trouble! Halloween is a time for scary movies, costume parties, haunted houses, and of course, hauntingly indulgent candy. Halloween candy is…Continue to read.
Any way you slice it, pizza is one of the most popular and ubiquitous foods around campus- and for good reason! Along with being a convenient comfort food for students on the go, pizza provides a carbohydrate rich starting point when building your plate. Although the carbohydrates in pizza…Continue to read.
“Brown bananas are spoiled. Pink chicken is always undercooked. The dining facilities serve poor quality meat and poultry. All oil used to cook food is unhealthy”. These common food, nutrition, and dining facility myths obscure the truth…Continue to read.
Apples and Brussels and kale, oh my! Fall is here, so break out your favorite sweaters, grab something pumpkin spiced, and take advantage of this season’s freshly harvested fruits and vegetables. Seasonal produce is…Continue to read.
What is this mythical place called “Harvest Café” you speak of and where is this magical culinary experience located? The New Jersey Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) on Cook Campus is home to Harvest Café. This dining venue is dedicated to…Continue to read.
Picture College Avenue around 3 o’clock in the afternoon–students flooding The Yard bus stop, pushing their way to get on a crowded LX bus, others running to class, and some just enjoying a coffee at Starbucks. Now imagine this at a microscopic level…Continue to read.
Let us toss around salad ideas. Salads are a tasty and easy way to incorporate a variety of fruits and vegetables into your diet. Caesar, creamy ranch, and Thousand Island dressings pair well with leafy greens, making you want to say yes to the dress-ings. However…Continue to read.
Are you a first-year student afraid of gaining the infamous “Freshman 15”? Fear not, the Healthy Dining Team is here to reveal the facts and bust all the “Freshman 15” myths. Although some college freshmen do gain weight, studies have shown that these gains are much…Continue to read.
Will the year ahead be a nutritional success or a dietary failure? You decide! The choices you make in the dining halls everyday can be the determining factor. Rutgers Dining Services provides…Continue to read.
RU stressed out about finals? When you are stressed or distracted, it is easy to lose focus on your overall health and wellbeing. However, practicing healthy eating habits sets you up for studying success. Students are able to learn better when…Continue to read.
Popeye the Sailor may have been on to something by consuming large quantities of spinach. Although a can of spinach will not enhance your strength as the cartoon claimed, incorporating this versatile vegetable into your diet can…Continue to read.
As the semester draws to an end, you may find yourself with extra meal swipes. Meal swipes will not roll over to the next semester – if you do not use them, you lose them. You may know…Continue to read.
A new edition of Dear HDT has arrived! You have questions; we have answers. Dear HDT, there are so many diets out there: Atkins, paleo, keto, raw food. Should I follow these diets to lose weight?…Continue to read.
When making your plate, choosing rice is a no-grainer. Rice is a low cost, staple food in many cultures and the base of many dishes around the world. There are various rice types, all with different…Continue to read.
Picture this: You pile your plate high and sit down to eat. After a few minutes, you discover your eyes are bigger than your stomach and have leftover food. You place your plate on the conveyor belt and leave the dining hall without a second thought. But what happens to the leftover food?…Continue to read.
Garlic is a food of legends, supposedly capable of providing protection against everything from the common cold to heart disease – not to mention vampires and werewolves. Tall tales aside, studies show garlic can act as a…Continue to read.
The Earth is our home, and our job is to protect it. How can you join the mission to help our planet? Start by including sustainable practices in the dining hall with your everyday eating routine. The food that you eat can…Continue to read.
Celebrate National Nutrition Month by Fueling for the Future! Take the month of March to learn about making informed choices regarding food and physical activity habits. This year we are Fueling for the Future by…Continue to read.
My sixth sense tells me you are here to learn about the multi-sensory experience of eating. If you pay close attention, you will notice eating engages all five senses: sight, hearing, smell…Continue to read.
“Brown bananas are spoiled. Pink chicken is always under cooked. The dining hall serves poor quality meat and poultry. All oil used to cook food is unhealthy”. These common food, nutrition, and dining hall myths obscure the truth about safe eating in our campus dining halls…Continue to read.
Eating together, or commensalism (from the Latin com, meaning together, and mensa, meaning table or food), is important to our health and well-being. The past couple years of Zoom™ classes and social distancing has made…Continue to read.
Imagine this: You enter the dining hall doors and begin to peruse the stations of food, wondering what your next meal will be. You then smell the delicious scent of savory soy sauce garlic glaze and tangy sweet and sour sauce wafting from…Continue to read.
Oats have been a popular food for thousands of years, and for good reason! Just a half cup of these ancient grains is packed with nutrients, including a mix of fiber, protein, and…Continue to read.
Here at the RU Healthy Dining Team, we love talking about nutrition. Love it. But sometimes it’s important to step back and explain why we care so much about well-balanced eating. Our job is to help students…Continue to read.
RU stressed out about finals? When you are stressed or distracted, it is easy to lose focus on your overall health and well-being. However, practicing healthy eating habits sets you up for…Continue to read.
What is your milk of choice? Are you milking the nutrients you need out of your go-to milk? With a variety of dairy milks and a growing market for plant-based milk alternatives, it can be difficult to choose which to drink. How do they compare?…Continue to read.
