Everyday comments about food and bodies might be influencing your child’s ability to manage their eating and weight. Find out what they are—and what to do instead to raise confident, body-trusting children.

Discover what the obesity paradox reveals about the hidden biases shaping weight and health research, and learn about the research that doesn’t make the news.

Discover what the research says about your child’s weight, and health—and why our current approaches may be doing more harm than good.

Everyone knows you can pick a number on the scale, change your food and exercise and get to that weight and stay there, right? Yet no scientific research exists which shows this this is possible. A quick look at the research and what you can do.

Is being skinny actually healthier? The research on body weight and health is more complicated—and more surprising—than most of us have been taught.

We specialize in eating disorders and disordered eating. If you need medical nutrition therapy for diabetes, kidney disease, GI concerns, or another condition, here’s one Florida referral resource—and when we might be able to help.

What happens when helping a child be “healthy” turns into trying to make them smaller? A look at food rules, weight-loss programs, and what kids actually need instead..

Many think they have to hate their body to do something about it. However, body hatred actually makes fear, anxiety, and chronic body dissatisfaction worse, it makes body image worse. You end up feeling terrible about yourself, and that makes it hard to take good care of yourself. Dump the body hatred if you want to get healthy!

Medical professionals often fat shame and blame medical conditions on weight. Find out how to deal with it, and how to find a doctor that will treat you with respect so that you can get good medical care. (And fat shaming hurts thin people too). Includes list of recommended doctors in the Gainesville FL area.

Heading into the New Year, weight loss and get fit advertisements are everywhere. But what if this year, instead of making resolutions to lose weight, you decided to set your intentions to take care of yourself differently? To give yourself more of what you really need?

It can difficult to quit eating when full at first; however, the accompanying negative self-talk only makes it much more difficult. 

Most people blame themselves when lost weight is regained, a practice weight loss programs encourage. When you realize it is not your fault, you may be better able to move on to more successful ways of managing food and weight.