Both Sides of The Plate
Kirsten Angell, RD, LD, CDCES, fourth generation rancher and registered dietitian, shares the science and the story of production agriculture while motivating farmers and ranchers to live healthy lives.
Before the Plate
Sharing a passion for rural America while connecting with those unfamiliar with production agriculture about the realities, truths, and joys of cattle ranching, beef in the kitchen, and the rural way of life.
The Other Side of the Plate
Empowering farmers and ranchers to implement healthy lifestyle choices that help making living a healthy lifestyle a reality.
Holiday Mental Health—Part III: More Hidden Disorders
We’ve all heard about anxiety, depression, and even bipolar disorder, but not many have heard about executive dysfunction or oppositional defiant disorder. Although not well-known, these two mental health disorders can significantly affect the dynamics of holiday gatherings.
Holiday Mental Health-Part II: ADHD in Adults
Are you dreading holiday gatherings because someone you will be around pushes your buttons but you aren’t just sure as to the reason?
Maybe it’s because they exhibit characteristics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults.
Holiday Mental Health-Part I: The Basics
For many, the holiday season from Thanksgiving to the New Year is the most joyful time of year. Unfortunately, for others, the holidays are quite the opposite.
Healthy Holiday Eating-Part III The Reason for the Season…It’s Not About the Food
We have Thanksgiving in the rear-view mirror and the hustle and bustle of Christmas is upon us. During that hustle and bustle, we sometimes forget to keep healthy nutrition habits at the forefront.
Healthy Holiday Eating-Part II: Be Thankful and Give
If we think about those who are food insecure, it might help us take a different approach to eating during the holidays.
National Diabetes Month 2021
Take your health into your own hands through awareness, detection, management, and thriving despite living with diabetes!
Healthy Holiday Eating-Part I: Trick or Treat or Eat?
Halloween is just the kickoff to the holiday eating season that spans from Halloween to potentially as far as Easter. Check out these Halloween tricks that can help keep you and your family on track for healthy treats you can eat.
National Farm Safety and Health Week
During this upcoming fall harvest season and beyond, think; work responsibly; and take your time to do your part in keeping yourself and those around you safe in the field, on the road, and in the home to reduce farm related accidents and fatalities.
Farming and Ranching is Tough
According to statistics from the CDC, between 2000 and 2018, rural suicide rates were higher than urban suicide rates, and the difference increased over this time period.
Grilling Food Safety Tips
Grilling season is a fun time when friends and family gather, and there would be no better way to ruin this fun time than for someone to fall ill unnecessarily due to unsafe food handling practices.
Wheat, Gluten, and Other “Stuff”
Unless you have one of the situations requiring going gluten-free, go enjoy all whole grains while supporting Kansas wheat farmers at the same time!
GMO…Friend or Foe?
Don’t be fooled by marketing labels for GMO’s and non-GMO’s or any other nutrition “claims” and know that GMO’s are our friend!
Strawberries—The Little Red Super Fruit
Sometimes I talk about foods when it’s time to plant them and sometimes when time to harvest them. If you have an established strawberry crop, June is the month to harvest strawberries in Kansas, but they have been “in season” in the grocery store since about March.
June is Dairy Month
Dairy month started as National Milk Month in 1937 to promote drinking milk. In 1939, June Dairy Month became the official title and focused on a broader use of milk and other dairy products.
May is BEEF Month—Make Eating Easy
Make eating easy…leave the “buddy system” by the wayside and get your complete protein by flying solo with LEAN BEEF in a well-balanced meal plan!
May is BEEF Month—Beef and Immunity
Don’t forget to include LEAN BEEF in your daily meal/snack pattern to help build immunity in the fight against covid!
May is BEEF Month…& Cinco de Mayo
Enjoy some beef fajitas to celebrate Cinco de Mayo today and thank the farmers and ranchers that produced that tasty BEEF and for their support of the Beef Checkoff program that helps promote LEAN BEEF in a balanced meal plan!
Infertility, Menopause, and Transitioning the Family Ranch—THE PERFECT STORM Part III
Decision is made to move back to family ranch with no formal plan but an informal plan to “help out” while expressing interest in preserving the family homestead.
Connect with Kirsten for Her Eloquent Writing Skills or Her Dynamic Presentation Services
Kirsten is well versed in public speaking and written dialogue and is ready to join the lineup for your next virtual or in-person event as well as to enlighten your readers.
“I had the pleasure of working with Kirsten as she was a presenter at our 2019 SCAND Conference in Columbia, SC. Her presentation on the role of the registered dietitian nutritionist and agriculture was exactly what was needed to make our members aware that agriculture is part of dietetic practice. She opened the eyes of members on the sustainable role farmers and ranchers are playing in keeping our environment safe. She emphasized the true impact farmers and ranchers have on climate change and how that small percentage is misrepresented in the media. She also demonstrated the need to dietetic professionals to work with rural food providers on their nutritional health and well-being. She was an energetic and great ambassador for farmers and ranchers and their role in maintaining the health and well-being of Americans. I hope someday we can find a way to have her come and present again at one of our future meetings. Her enthusiasm, professionalism and speaking skills is why I highly recommend her as a speaker and as a consultant.”