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About Dana Angelo White MS RD AT
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer, author, journalist, and nutrition and fitness consultant. She specializes in culinary nutrition, recipe development and sports nutrition.
Dana works closely with chefs and authors to develop creative and healthy recipes for cookbooks, magazines and menus. She is the nutrition expert for Food Network.com and founding contributor for Food Network’s Healthy Eats blog.
In October 2013, Dana was named to Sharecare’s list of Top 10 Social HealthMakers on Nutrition, recognizing her as one of the most influential voices in health and wellness.
Dana has served on advisory boards for Verywell, Greatist, Applegate, Chobani and Healthy Happy Kids. She was a consultant for Follow Productions on seasons 2 and 3 of Bobby Deen’s show Not My Mama’s Meals and has worked as a media spokesperson for Gatorade, Hidden Valley’s Love Your Veggies Program and Cooking Light Magazine. She has made appearances on Good Day Street Talk, Food Network.com, Access Hollywood, ABC Nightly News, NBC Connecticut, GMA Health, New York Live and Better Connecticut.
Dana is the sports dietitian and assistant clinical faculty in the department of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. She is a member of the NATA-SCAN Alliance Committee and National NATA Liason to SCAN. Dana conducts workshops and cooking demonstrations for fitness organizations, corporate settings and schools.
Dana’s recipes, quotes, and articles have been featured on Food Network.com, Verywell.com, Greatist.com, HealthyDay, WebMD, Cooking Light.com, Today’s Dietitian, SHAPE, SEVENTEEN, Prevention, Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Fitness and Maxim magazine. She has created meal plans and recipes for books including The Whole 9 Months, Energy To Burn, Extra Lean and Extra Lean Family by Mario Lopez, The Prayfit Diet and Tell Me What To Eat If I Am Trying To Conceive. She is the author of a series of e-cookbooks for MySportsRD. Her cookbook First Bites: Superfoods for Babies and Toddlers was released in February 2015 and her newest Healthy Air Fryer Cookbook was released September, 2017. Stay tuned as Dana has 2 more books coming out in 2018!
A farmers’ market junkie and local food aficionado, Dana worked with Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment to create the Healthy Harvest Food Regional Guides, to educate consumers on purchasing and preparing seasonal foods.
As a practicing Certified Athletic Trainer, Dana provides emergency medicine and rehabilitation services to high school, college and professional athletes. She is also a CPR and First Aid instructor for the American Red Cross.
Dana earned her master’s degree in nutrition education from Teachers’ College-Columbia University and bachelor’s degree from Quinnipiac University in Sports Medicine. She resides in Fairfield, Connecticut with her husband, three children and Boston Terrier, Violet Pickles.
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Blog postI am on a huge chickpea kick lately. Here are 5 ways to LOVE this healthy legume.
Chickpea Salad! First up is this fun vegetarian spin on tuna or chicken salad bursting with flavor and plenty of protein and fiber. Make a big batch and enjoy for snacks and lunches all week long.
Print Chickpea Salad Protein packed vegetarian recipe with minimal ingredients and BIG flavor. Prep Time 10 minutes Servings 4 Calories 154kcal Ingredients1 15 oz can chickpeas rinsed and drai3 months ago Read more -
Blog postThere’s still time to spread some healthy holiday cheer – here are my top last minute gift ideas with health and fitness in mind. (Disclosure: this post includes some affiliate links).
Farm Share Love
Give the gift of a farm share delivery. If you live in Connecticut, check out Gazy Brothers Farm CSA – I have been a member for 15 years and there is no harder working family of farmers. Also consider an indoor farm operation. Willo Farms (pictured above) uses amazing technology7 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe freshest pears EVER. My appreciation for farmers runs deep. From my backyard garden, to my local green market, to the CSA I’ve belonged to for almost 15 years, I have a true appreciation the beauty of fresh produce as well as how hard farmers across this country work to provide it. I also realize that I have the gift of perspective – there is so much about farming Americans take for granted.
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Blog postYou probably heard somewhere that MSG is bad news. It’s terrible for you… right?…. or at least that’s what you were led to believe! It turns out lots of folks have been duped into thinking this umami bomb of flavor was a no-no. But in fact, this ingredient found on dinner tables all over the world deserves a seat at the American table. Nutrition professionals (this one included) subscribed to the “No MSG” school of thought for decades, but never really questioned the logic or asked to see th<8 months ago Read more
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Blog postSimple ways to give your smoothies a nutritional boost.
Whether it’s more protein, fiber or omega-3 fats – there are several ways to enhance your favorite smoothie recipes.
Feeling sleepy – get a jolt of Caffeine: brewed tea, coffee, matcha powder
Electrolytes for post exercise muscle recovery: coconut water, sea salt
Optimize digestion and stay fuller longer with Fiber: dried prunes, wheat germ, oats
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Blog postDisclosure: I received a free Kyvol air fryer to test. Opinions in this post are my own.
Kyvol Air Fryer
I am always asked “Which Air Fryer Should I Buy?” and I after using dozens of machines, I’ve learned there really is a lot of variation. I had never heard of Kyvol before but was excited to give it a try. This machine has a lot to offer – it is lightweight, easy to use, affordable and cooks really well. There’s no escaping a bulky air fryer – that powerful fan needs room to10 months ago Read more -
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Blog postEating for performance #foodisfuel
Sports Nutrition is all about timing and when you eat is just as important as what. Let’s do some myth BUSTING.
MYTH: Don’t eat or focus on eating only protein before a workout.
FACT: Choose carbohydrates plus small amounts of protein and fat for optimal digestion and fueling.
Protein is not an efficient energy source. You need the proper balance of carbs and fat to give you fuel.
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Blog postSmoothie Bowls
Smoothie bowls are trending – and we have been making them A LOT at home. As it turns out achieving perfect smoothie bowl consistency is harder than I thought. The secret is avoiding the temptation to use too much liquid – just enough to prevent the blender from getting stuck. Another key component is your blender — a high speed option like the classic Vitamix or this amazingly powerful (and affordable) blender/smoothie bowl maker from Ninja is what you need to easily g1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI’m always looking to save money on healthy foods and create recipes that are easy enough for anyone to prepare. Healthy, nourishing food doesn’t have to be more expensive than junk. Here are some stellar examples.
Breakfasts
Kick off the day with any of these quick and easy breakfasts. Frozen fruit and pantry staples like nut butter and salsa elevate a meal in seconds.
Peanut butter + whole grain bread + sliced banana = healthy PB sandwich
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Blog postShockingly, I never get tired of cooking for my family but weeknights can be stressful and busy so I rely on a few quick and easy meals to help ensure there are no hangry folks in my house at dinnertime.
#1 Make Ahead Sheet Pan Salmon
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Blog postIt’s the most wonderful (football) time of the year and whether you are a HUGE football fan (like me) or not, it’s hard not to get in on the Super Bowl festivities. This sacred Sunday is also famous for high calorie foods and lots of booze. Here are some tips and swaps to make your Super Bowl Sunday a little less super sized.
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I love this Bella unit and the price is great – the inner basket is huge so you can cook quickly and in fewer batches.
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Lower your high blood pressure with a DASH of this diet!
Your doctor says your blood pressure is a little high. They suggest the usual remedies: more exercise and a better diet. But you need specifics. Where do you turn?
You turn to the table of contents in DASH Diet Meal Prep for Beginners. With the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, getting more potassium, magnesium, protein, fiber, and other nutrients and minerals for controlling blood pressure into your healthy eating regimen is essential. Studies have shown that these are all vital for strengthening your heart health. If there's ever a diet that proves the way to your heart is through your stomach, the DASH diet is that diet--and DASH Diet Meal Prep for Beginners is the book for you.
This cookbook includes these features:
-100 DASH diet recipes with helpful nutritional information, including calories, fat and sodium
-Six weekly meal plans to help you prep DASH dishes
-Expert advice from Food Network nutritionist Dana Angelo White on how to transition to and maintain the DASH diet
If you want to lower your risks of heart disease, kidney disease, and stroke, the DASH diet is for you--and DASH Diet Meal Prep for Beginners is your guide to making lifelong changes to how and what you eat.
“I’m thrilled that Dr. Lang has put her valuable knowledge into these pages. With this book in your hand, you are on your way to putting your health first and setting your baby up for lifelong wellness.”—JESSICA ALBA, co-founder of The Honest Company
Good for baby, good for you: Every mom-to-be knows how important it is to pick the right foods when you’re eating for two—but the information overload on pre-natal nutrition can be stressful and time-consuming. The Whole Nine Months is your all-in-one pregnancy book with simple nutritional guidelines, up-to-date pregnancy research, and real mom-to-mom advice. Through reading The Whole Nine Months you’ll discover how easy it can be to make good food choices for your body while growing a healthy, happy baby.
An invaluable reference and cookbook during pregnancy, The Whole Nine Months contains:
- Nutritional Information: covering everything you need to know on essential baby-building nutrients, daily consumption needs, and where to find them in foods
- Over 100 Quick and Easy Recipes: including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options—with helpful hints on how to customize each recipe to suit your cravings
- Handy Tricks: helping you to handle nausea, cravings, and anything else that comes your way
As an OB-GYN, activist, and mother herself, Dr. Lang knows how hard it can be to absorb the available information on pre-natal nutrition while tackling cravings and nausea.
“Eating for two” is the single most important thing that you’ll ever do—and The Whole Nine Months is the only pregnancy book you’ll need to get it right.
Satisfy your anytime cravings with a smoothie!
On a summer day, after an intense workout, or on a lazy afternoon, nothing refreshes better than a cold smoothie. Unfortunately, it can often take a lot of time and effort to make and enjoy them. But not the smoothie recipes in Healthy, Quick & Easy Smoothies. You won't need more than 10 minutes and no more than 5 ingredients to make any smoothie in this book-and they're all under 300 calories!
Healthy, Quick & Easy Smoothies includes these features:
100 mouthwatering recipes for tropical fruit, berry, combination, and green smoothies
Complete nutritional data to help with your weight loss goals
Expert information from Dana Angelo White, nutritionist for the Food Network, on why smoothies are better than juices and how to best make smoothies
Every recipe contains complete nutritional data to help you plan your meals and meet your daily dietary needs. Many recipes also offer modifications you can make-but the healthy, quick, and easy promises never change. And because you have so many delicious smoothies to choose from, your blender is sure to occupy a permanent place on your countertop!
A cookbook for college students who want to eat well without breaking the bank, with over 100 simple, nutritious, and delicious recipes.
You don't need to survive on fast food for four years!
Every busy college student knows how difficult it can be to eat healthy and also do it on a tight budget, but eating healthy doesn't need to be hard! Healthy, Quick & Easy College Cookbook has everything you need to make simple, delicious, nutritious recipes that you'll love, and you won't have to break your budget to do it. You'll learn how to make breakfasts that will fuel your day, lunches that are simple but satisfying, and main dishes that will impress anyone - including your parents. You'll also learn how to make healthier snacks that aren't loaded with salt and sugar, sweet treats that are better than anything from a bag, and late night treats that you actually won't regret eating the next day.
Here's what you'll find inside:
-Over 100 simple and healthy recipes that any student can make, with basic ingredients and simple instructions that even the most inexperienced cook can follow
-Helpful guidance for stocking a campus kitchen with the right tools and the essential basic ingredients
-Simple but helpful tips for successful cooking, getting the most out of ingredients, stretching a food budget, and storing food safely
-Meal prep basics that will help students take full advantage of the time they have and also help them stretch their ingredients
Ditch the dishes and simplify dinner with 100 healthy, family-friendly recipes you can make in just one pan.
Weeknight dinners can be a chore, especially when they require multiple pots and pans. Simplify dinner with 100 easy recipes that come together quickly and require only one sheet pan, skillet, Dutch oven, multicooker, or slow cooker. Healthy recipes feature fresh, whole food ingredients and lightened up versions of family favorites. Short on prep but big on flavor, these homemade meals are easy, flexible, and quick to prepare--exactly what you need to get dinner on the table with minimal fuss.
Healthy One Pan Dinners makes weeknight cooking attainable with:
100 recipes for satisfying, one-pan dinners that will please the whole family including Skirt Steak with Chimichurri, Ginger Shrimp with Carrots and Snap Peas, Eggplant Parmesan Stackers, and Thai Chicken Lettuce Cups.
Helpful tags to identify Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian, Under 30 Minutes, and Freezer-Friendly meals.
Complete nutritional information for every recipe.
Tips for repurposing leftovers, meal prep, storage, and reheating.
You don't have to compromise your health or your vegan lifestyle to enjoy fried foods!
Wondering what your air fryer can do? How about quickly making foods that use less oil than deep frying and thus have less fat than their traditional deep-fried counterparts?
With this book, you can go even further by making foods that contain only vegan ingredients. Plus, every recipe has nutritional data to show you how low in calories and fat each meal is. You can make pizza, tacos, and, yes, even cake--all without compromising your eating habits and without needing to submerge your food in unhealthy oil.
Not only can this appliance fry foods, but it can also bake, roast, and grill. So if you were hesitant to use your air fryer before, now you can put it to good use by making all your vegan favorites quickly, easily, and healthfully.
This cookbook features:
100 vegan recipes with low calories, low fat, and all-natural ingredients
Healthier recipes for breakfast, dinner, sides, snacks, and even desserts
Detailed nutritional data for every recipe, including calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and sodium
"I LOVE this cookbook. The recipes are super simple and are perfect for an air fryer novice, like myself." -T. Oksman
"So many awesome recipes, from breakfast to dinner and in between." -JMcDubs
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Healthier versions of your fried favorites-all under 500 calories!
Using an air fryer is fast, convenient-and healthy. You need less oil to cook food and you can use healthier ingredients than traditional fried foods. Registered dietician Dana Angelo White, the nutrition expert for Food Network.com, has developed recipes that have fewer calories and less fat than the same recipes you'd make in a deep fryer.
Healthy Air Fryer Cookbook features:
100 recipes for breakfast essentials, healthier mains, lighter sides, wholesome snacks, and (less) sinful desserts
Nutrition per serving for calories, carbs, fat, and other nutrients
Expert advice from Dana Angelo White on how best to use your air fryer
None of the recipes in this book compromise on the flavors you'd expect. And you can still enjoy all your fried favorites-donuts, French fries, and, yes, chicken wings-without feeling guilty. Plus, you can make foods you didn't think an air fryer could make, including steak fajitas, shrimp scampi, and cookies. So equipped with this book, you don't have to let your air fryer continue to sit on your kitchen counter!
Make delicious, healthy recipes faster and easier, and with less fat and fewer calories, using your Instant Pot multicooker.
You know your Instant Pot multi-cooker can do it all--and now it can do it healthier!
The Instant Pot is a digital multi-function cooker that can pressure cook, slow cook, sauté, steam, and even make yogurt; it cooks significantly faster than traditional methods, and leaves food more flavorful and more nutrient dense. Now you can make delicious, healthy recipes faster and easier, and with less fat and fewer calories, using your Instant Pot multi-cooker. Healthy Instant Pot Cookbook is the perfect resource for healthy recipes that utilize simple, everyday ingredients. In it you get:
100 delicious, healthy recipes for breakfast, entrées, sides, desserts, and more
Key nutrition information for every recipe to help ensure you'll stick to your healthy eating plan
Beautiful photography and a graphical approach to the recipes to help finding key information easier
Helpful tips and tricks for using, cleaning, and maintaining your Instant Pot, and instructions for adjusting conventional recipes for cooking in the Instant Pot
FIRST BITES is the quick and easy reference guide that all parents can keep on hand to whip up tasty and nutritious meals for their babies and toddlers in no time. Recipes are designed to help to foster healthy eating habits and create a diet filled with 50 fresh, minimally processed superfoods that are just as delicious as they are healthy. In this book, fruit and veggies take center stage in new and exciting ways, yet parents will also learn to create healthy spins on classic kid favorites like mac and cheese, pizza, chicken fingers and cupcakes.
FIRST BITES offers all the tools parents need to turn the naturally healthy foods they have on hand into delectable breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks designed to encourage youngsters to become strong and healthy eaters for a lifetime.
Make healthy juicing easy with 100 no-fuss recipes that that can be made with five ingredients or less!
Juicing is a quick and easy way to feed and fuel your body, and now you can do it with five ingredients or less! Healthy, Quick & Easy Juicing contains 100 recipes that are all super simple to prepare, and every recipe can be made in less than 10 minutes. No more buying lots of ingredients that can go bad; these recipes are all delicious and they all make about two servings, so any waste is minimal, and every recipe is under 300 calories per serving. Here's what you'll get:
100 recipes each with complete nutrition information, calories, and prep times, and a wide variety of recipes to satisfy any appetite
Simple instructions to help you prepare your juices with ease and in minimal time, with tips for buying the right produce, storing your juices, and adjusting the ingredients to suit any taste
Recipes to satisfy every taste, including fruit juices, vegetable juices, combo juices, and green juices