by Marissa Beck, MS, RDN | Oct 28, 2025 |
Ping. Your labs are ready. You tell yourself: do NOT overreact. Then, you open your results. And immediately overreact. There it is. LDL cholesterol: high. Before you start googling “how to rapidly lower your LDL cholesterol level,” take a deep breath. As a...
by Marissa Beck, MS, RDN | Oct 4, 2025 |
Tired of losing and regaining weight? Tired of being told the only way to “be healthy” is to lose weight? And tired of people saying you should magically love the body you’re in, no matter what? Same. Hi, I’m Marissa, and I’ve been a dietitian since 2009,...
by Marissa Beck, MS, RDN | Sep 8, 2025 |
Listen to this article! You don’t have to train for a marathon to be an athlete. Maybe you were a competitive swimmer in college. Maybe you played soccer year-round growing up. Or maybe your “sport” these days is juggling work deadlines, chasing your kids, and...
by Marissa Beck, MS, RDN | Aug 19, 2025 |
Cold lunches. They sound easy enough, right? But between kids who get maybe 10 rushed minutes to eat at school, or adults shoveling bites in between emails, packing something cold that’s balanced, tasty, and actually gets eaten is harder than it looks. If you’re...
by Marissa Beck, MS, RDN | Jun 29, 2025 |
When I was a kid, my mom would peel a whole cucumber and hand it to me while she cooked dinner. Sometimes it was a carrot. Other times, a halved orange or grapefruit. Without realizing it, she created the first version of what I now call the Hangry Plate™: a...
