Online Medical Programs

By BRENNE MEIROWITZ

To avoid unhealthful snacking, following a Mediterranean Diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables is important to students pursuing their RN degree online. Most students consume a poor diet, and snacking is more likely to occur if you are working on a degree from home. Therefore, I have decided to share my experience when it comes to nutrition, which I call my Mom’s Heart Healthy Diet. I have been concerned about eating well since I was in my late teens – seventeen to be exact. “Why,” you ask at seventeen? At age seventeen, I met my first husband who was raised in Israel, where produce is abundantly fresh, and a mainstay of the Middle East diet.

Rather than eating some sort of processed and ultra sweetened cereal for breakfast, as I was accustomed to in the States, breakfast in Israel usually includes fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, homemade bread, and even a homemade type of cream cheese called lebany. Lebany is a derivative of yogurt, which when strained and aged for several days becomes pasty – like cream cheese. Snacks, such as fresh and juicy grapes, oranges, and crunchy apples are eaten in abundance, rather than candy bars, donuts, and chips. Don’t get me wrong – Israelis, even those enrolled in RN degree online programs, absolutely do indulge in these and other unhealthful treats, but most generally do not consume these treats to the extent that we Americans do.

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