About Jessica

I love to eat, cook and blog about my adventures in maintaining a healthy lifestyle from college and beyond. Struggling (for the first time in my life) to gain control of my weight after my freshman year, I researched and learned the fundamentals of healthy living. Join me at Dishin' About Nutrition where I offer my most sound advice, my favorite recipes and my all around passion for life!

Taste the Rainbow!

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Sorry to disappoint but Skittles is not the new diet craze. Eating colorful fruits and veggies is though! Now, it would be a tad redundant and a pinch of “Captain-Obvious” of me to tell you eating fruits and veggies is good for your waistline, but do you know how the different colors react with your body?The pigments, called “lycopene” or “anthocyanins,” in food that make up their More…