Cheatham Nutrition & Cognition Lab

🌽🍅🥒 August is bursting with fresh, flavorful produce! Eating seasonally is a great way to enjoy fruits and vegetables at their peak taste while adding variety and important nutrients to your meals.

What's your favorite fruit or vegetable to enjoy in August? 🌞🥗🍑

Monday Made Well: Tomato Basil Corn Salad 🥗

🍅🌽 Fresh, colorful, and full of summer flavor! This Tomato Basil Corn Salad is the perfect way to enjoy seasonal produce. Tomatoes are more than just delicious—they're packed with nutrition! Combined with sweet corn and fresh basil, this simple salad is a vibrant side dish that's both refreshing and nutritious.

To every mom navigating the beautiful, exhausting, and miraculous world of breastfeeding: we see you, and we are in complete awe of you. ✨You are quite literally sustaining life, working through the late nights, the learning curves, and the quiet triumphs. It is a journey of pure love and fierce dedication. 🤍

This World Breastfeeding Week, we’re cheering you on, celebrating your strength, and honoring every single drop of effort you pour into your baby. You are doing an incredible job. 🙌

Do not eat, sell, or serve, recalled GreenWise-brand Organic Frozen Whole Blueberries or Whole Mixed berries. See the advisory for additional information. FDA’s investigation is ongoing. https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-e-coli-o145h28-frozen-blueberries-july-2026

🥑 Happy National Avocado Day! 💚

Today we're celebrating one of our favorite foods—and one we have the opportunity to study. Through our research, we explore how avocados may fit into healthy eating patterns and their potential role in supporting overall health.

Here's to celebrating National Avocado Day and the research that helps uncover how nutritious foods like avocados can support healthier lives! 🥑

Monday Made Well: Avocado Toast with Grated Eggs from

🥑 Happy National Avocado Day week! 💚 We're celebrating one of nature's most nutritious superfoods with this simple, delicious Avocado Toast topped with grated egg.

Creamy avocado delivers heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, fiber, potassium, and nearly 20 vitamins and minerals to help support heart health, keep you feeling full, and fuel your day. Paired with protein-rich grated egg on whole-grain toast, it's a balanced breakfast or lunch that's as nourishing as it is satisfying.

Here's to celebrating National Avocado Day all week long—one delicious bite at a time! 🥑🍞🥚

Brain health = Overall health! 🥑🧠

What better way to stay healthy than by incorporating food! Avocados are not only tasty, but support brain health amongst overall wellbeing, being a great option, alternative, and add in to your daily meals.

Monday Made Well: Cornbread Muffins from

Healthy Cornbread Muffins 🌽💛 Soft, fluffy, naturally sweetened, and made with simple ingredients. Perfect with chili, soups, or a little butter and honey!

Happy National Blueberry Day! 💙🫐

Monday Made Well: Salmon Rice Bowl from

Try this 20 minute Salmon Rice Bowl Recipe packed with flavor fiber, omega--3s, and vitamin b12 for your next meal! 🥘