Do you ever think about your relationship with food and your body? I mean, really think about it, and what it means to you. A good relationship with your body means respecting and valuing it, and having a desire to care for and nourish it, not to punish it. It’s having an appreciation for what…
Yeah, I know you read the title of this post and thought I was going to say that ADHD isn’t a thing. But that’s not what this post is about. In fact, my daughter has severe ADHD. We knew she had it almost from birth. She was always far more active than other kids, unable…
Now that it’s officially the holiday season, we need to have a little talk about eating. The holidays are full of delicious food, dinners with family (some more stressful than others), and high emotions. All of this can lead to overeating. Overeating can lead to guilt, shame, and an attempt to compensate for the food…
Some things in life are predictable: the way the media reacts to new diet research is unfortunately two of them. We can predict, say, that every few months or so, there will be some crazy media headlines making some new nutrition research seem like it’s the greatest, most groundbreaking thing on earth. Just as predictable…
1/2 cup of cooked pasta. 3/4 cup of ice cream. 3 Oreo cookies. 1/2 cup broccoli. Serving sizes are ingrained into a lot of us, and for some of us, they continue to be the ‘rules’ we follow when we eat. But is serving size actually the amount we should be eating? Who created this…
So much bad advice, so little time. We all want to be healthy, but something that seems so simple is overcomplicated by people who give out bad nutrition advice. There’s no shortage of those people, either, and it all seems to be getting worse – as if there’s a pissing contest to see who can…