Opinion

Diet, nutrition and healthy eating: Part 1 {Guest Column}

By JULIE DRAKE

Special to the Herald Times

RBC | Words like dietitian, nutrition and healthy eating are common in popular media. However, it was not always that way, especially in Northwest Colorado. A dietitian was a novel, poorly understood profession and the messages they taught were thought to be crazy and irrelevant.

I know because my mom was the only registered dietitian in Northwest Colorado during the 1960s, ‘70s and early ‘80s. She traveled…