Meet Keri Marshall MS, ND - Naturopathic Doctor
My name is Keri Marshall and I am a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in private practice in Dover, NH, and mother of two. I have a general family practice that encompasses all aspects of natural medicine including clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy and lifestyle counseling. I enjoy organic gardening, cooking, snowboarding, camping, biking and surfing. Currently one of the big projects I am working on in my community is an effort to improve the public school hot lunch program. Recently, our school board unanimously approved removal of all trans fats from foods being served, no artificial sweeteners, and at least 50% of grains served will be whole grains.
With the information I provide, I hope to help you understand a few simple concepts, one of which is that childhood nutrition begins as early as conception. How we eat throughout pregnancy as well as how we introduce food to an infant will greatly impact lifelong nutrition and eating habits. I also hope to provide beneficial information with regard to decoding nutrition labels and de-mystifying contradictory information that we hear about in the media and what it means in our day-to-day life.
In general, children who consume Standard American Diet (SAD) meet the RDA basic guidelines for nutrition. Unfortunately, it appears that we have set the bar too low and the guidelines set by the government are fostering an epidemic of obesity and poor health. I look forward to creating a forum to discuss ways to raise the bar with regards to our children’s nutrition and explore ways to improve our own personal nutrition and lifestyle habits as parents.
–Dr. Keri Marshall MS, ND is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor who specializes in holistic pediatrics and women’s medicine.
Tags: kiwi, Naturopathic, nutrition, obesity, school lunch, Wellness
January 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Nice to meet you, Keri! I look forward to hearing your tips about eating nutritiously during pregnancy and beyond.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Thanks Stephanie. We’re very excited about Keri and the great advice she’ll be giving our readers. Her next blog is on “cold and flu” so stay tuned!
January 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
It’s great that you have a Naturopathic doctor on board!
March 10th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I’m glad to have you on board! We live in No.Virginia, and I am always amazed at the low quality, low nutritional value, artery-clogging lunch menu selection at my kids’ school. Is there anything that can be done nationwide to improve the quality of school lunches accross the board, or is this something that needs to be managed at the local level? Are there any additional resources, reports, research studies that I could use to build a case for my boys’ school, in particular? I feel like it’s not enough to teach our kids the theory of a healthy food pyramid. We need to teach with concrete examples. What I see in my kids’ lunch menu is a lot of fat and sugar, too many unhealthy choices. This has to change if we want to stop the epidemic of childhood diabetes and obesity.