Weight Loss Nutrition 101 Podcasts

Weight Loss Nutrition 101 is a must-hear seven-part series for anyone serious about weight loss and healthy management of eating habits. In this series you will learn the unvarnished truth about eating healthy and losing weight. You can listen to each through your computer or you can subscribe through iTunes for your iPod.

About the Speaker: Vicki Saunders is the nutrition educator for St. Helena Center for Health. She has her master's degree in medical dietetics. She is a registered dietitian who specializes in weight-loss, eating disorders and dietary modification for chronic disease.

Podcast Series

The Two Faces of Nutrition - An Introduction to Nutrition
An introduction to nutrition and healthy eating.

Calorie Density and Weight Loss
Eating more for less. That's what we would all like to hear in a weight loss program. Vicki Saunders, the Transformation s program's dietitian educator, discusses calorie density and how you can eat more and still lose weight.

Plant-based Diets and Antioxidants
Why eat a plant-based diet? Vicki Saunders discusses how the antioxidant nutrients present in vegetables, fruits and other plant foods, protect our cells from damage that can lead to cancer.

Plant-based Diets and Longevity
What is a plant-based diet? Vicki Saunders defines the diet and talks about its advantages for weight loss and health improvement.

Fats - Good and Bad
Food labels have changed to reflect the fact that the public is now wary of fat in their diets. A low-fat diet has been proven to enhance overall cardiovascular health. So what do these labels mean in layman's terms?

Carbohydrates - Good and Bad
With more than 45 million copies of books about the Atkins Diet, or low carbohydrate diet, sold studies have shown that after six months on the diet, weight begins to creep up once again.