Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness. I'm Melanie

Beasley and I'm a licensed and registered dietitian for the past 30 years. Working as a dietitian

for many different organizations and today, I'm happy to be teaching and counseling clients

who come to nutritional weight and wellness.

Our plan is much more than helping people lose weight. I always think we should be nutritional

wellness and weight. Yeah, I agree. It is a healthy healing plan based on eating real food. Real food is not a magic pill. Wouldn't you agree, Brittany?

Yeah, it's a process. It's a process. But over time, the nutrition from real food heals the cells and then the body.

It's magical, but it does take time and commitment. We know eating natural fats and oils are important part of the healing process.

So I often recommend butter, real grass-filled fed butter, coconut oil, avocado oil, and bacon grease, my favorite.

People are always surprised when we say that one.

I know, they're like, I can have this.

I'm like, I encourage it. So we just see that natural fats are very healing. Low fat diets have

harmed us in the past and we need good natural fats for immunity. And today, Brittany Vincent, also a registered dietitian,

joins us as our co-host and we want to share some information about how we can all keep a

strong immune function during the holidays. My reason to support immunity is different than

Britney's and your reason may be

different from our reason. But we all want to stay healthy. I think we can agree on that.

Yeah, absolutely. Well, good morning. I'm Brittany Vincent. I'm also a registered and licensed

dietitian, and I'm a mother of 16-month-old twins and a two-and-a-half-year-old son.

And there's just so much junk going around. It's crazy this year. You know, COVID, RSV, flu,

all of it. And about a month ago, RSV went through my kids' daycare center. Oh, boy.

So they all got it, but they all got through it really, really well. And I really can

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