I’m sure whoever invented the concept of ‘wellness’ did it with good intentions. I mean, to be ‘well’ generally means being healthy in body, mind, and spirit, so theoretically, wellness is a wonderful goal to aspire to. But wellness in 2019 isn’t what it presumably set out to be. The term has been co-opted by…
I recently did an epic rant on Facebook about an article I found titled, ‘4 carbs that nobody over 40 should be eating because they cause stomach and back fat.’ I know it sounds like something out of the Onion, but sadly, the article was real. And this wasn’t the only time I’ve seen shit…
I was actually in the middle of another blog post when I got a message from a journalist wanting to interview me about a study that just came out on Alternate Day Fasting. I didn’t even know what that was, but suddenly it’s all over the place. I’m even having a Twitter spat about it…
A huge part of nutrition counselling is helping people to change their habits. I’m like a professional habit-changer! Sure, there’s some nutrition-based technical stuff that happens, but in the end, most people require some sort of habit-shift to improve their eating habits and their health. This can be really tough, especially when someone has been eating…
It’s hard for me to even understand what sort of person would find this shit funny, but a company named ‘Pourtions’ recently came out with a set of plates that use fat-shaming to ‘help people eat better.’ The plates, according to Pourtions, ‘keep you from overindulging…Research shows that people unintentionally consume more calories when faced…
There’s a lot of ways to describe food, eating, diets, and our relationships to all of those things. Sometimes though, I think we inadvertently use words in those contexts that actually make the experience of eating into something negative. You all know that I adore food, and I feel as though too many people associate…