health expert
Brief info
Maya Vadiveloo spends most weekdays studying food. As a dietitian and associate professor of nutrition at the University of Rhode Island, she pores over large data sets to help people make healthier decisions at the grocery store.
But at night, when she gets home from work, perfect nutrition is not top of mind.
“I obviously spend quite a bit of time thinking about food,” she said, but as a single parent of an 8-year-old daughter, she tries to model balance and pleasure rather than perfection and rigidity.
Here are seven tips she shared for maintaining that balance, and for eating well when you don’t have a lot of time.