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Diet Culture Teaches Us To Fear Eating: Reclaim Your Birthright
Diet culture taught us to mistrust our bodies. But what if we chose reverence and grace over control and guilt?.
Filling Up On Salad: The Fallacy of Volume Fullness
We’ve been taught to chase fullness on the cheap—piling our plates with low-calorie, high-volume foods. But there’s another cost we don’t talk about.
Consequences of Fat Shaming by Health Care Providers
Fat shaming in the medical field isn’t just unkind — it’s dangerous. This eye-opening post breaks down how weight bias harms patients, delays care, and damages health.
Intuitive Eating, Nutrition, and Health: What Does the Research Say?
Research about intuitive eating was sparse in the 90s, but the more people experience success, the more the scientists are taking notice, and in the recent years, we are seeing significant research confirming intuitive eating works. Following are some of the key earlier studies, plus other article relevant to intuitive eating.
Why Hunger Isn’t the Enemy: Reclaiming Your Body’s Most Basic Wisdom
Discover how paying attention (instead of pushing it away) can calm cravings and guide you back to food peace.
Aquaman and Abs: Hollywood's Unrealistic Body Standards Now Focused on Male Actors
Male body shaping is becoming increasingly prevalent. And as we consume more polished media, the line between reality and Hollywood becomes more blurred. This article aims to unpack how even a hero like Aquaman can be body shamed and how male actors now have to shape their bodies to become Hollywood superheroes.
What is Intuitive Eating? (And Why It’s Not a Free-For-All)
If you're tired of food rules and still feel lost, intuitive eating offers a different path — one that helps you reconnect with your body’s natural cues and find peace with food.
Two Forms of Eating that Feel Out-of-Control
There are two forms of eating that can feel out-of-control: deprivation-driven eating and emotional eating. Most people think that out-of-control eating is mostly emotional. Actually, it is far more likely that ‘over’eating is deprivation-driven.
The Full Fridge
For those confident enough to bring food into your home, a “full fridge” embodies much more than the foods inside. Let’s reach inside and discover what’s in a “full fridge.”
So Sugar Is Bad(?): What Happens When You Avoid It
You've read that sugar is bad so you decide to avoid it. And, to avoid sugar, you have to be on the watch for it. You have to notice it, pay attention to it, so that you can avoid it. And then what happens?
Manipulated by Restaurant Menus?
Be very careful the next time you look over a restaurant menu. Your food choices may not be your own. The menu layout can determine how satisfied we are at the end of the meal! Are we really that malleable? Apparently. And the big chains take advantage of it.
How To Quit Eating by Experiencing "Enough"
Do you ever have the sense that you just can't quit eating? That there is never enough? That you are a bottomless pit? These experiences are an opportunity to look deeper, to find out what may be going on behind it.