For your New Years resolution, set boundaries and prioritize your well-being. As the new year approaches, many people in my nutrition practice and online intuitive eating courses think about resolutions and ways to improve their health and well-being. However, it’s...
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5 Ways a Group Support Program can Help You Grow
If you are over the age of 40, 50, or 60+ ……I am confident you had a lot of diet culture growing up. And probably a lot of negative body talk and obsessing about diets and weight gain. Like many clients we work with, you are tired of being on a diet, hating your body...
How a Dietitian Uses Meal Plans in Eating Disorder Treatment
Nutrition counseling with a dietitian who specializes in eating disorders is a vital part of any treatment team. No matter the type of eating disorder a person struggles with, correcting nutritional deficiencies and creating a regular eating pattern is necessary for...
What is it Like to Work With an Eating Disorder Dietitian?
The thought of going to a dietitian who specializes in eating disorders can be a frightening and emotional experience for many people. We thought it would help to get an idea of what to expect at both initial and follow-up appointments. The dietitians at Erica Leon...
Fresh vs Frozen Fruits and Vegetables: Is there a Difference?
Do you know the difference between fresh fruits and vegetables and their frozen counterparts? While they start out the same, fresh fruits and vegetables may be picked prior to peak ripeness so they can ripen during transportation to stores. Fruits and vegetables that...
5 Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship with Food
Are you suffering from a toxic relationship with food? Do you believe that some foods are "good" while others are "bad?" Are there foods you never allow yourself to eat? Do you find that you are either restricting or overeating? If this sounds like you, then intuitive...
Eat the Rainbow of Nutrition with your Fruits and Vegetables
A well-balanced diet includes eating fruits and vegetables of different colors every day. A well-balanced diet, which includes fruits and vegetables with an assortment of colors helps ensure your body is getting all the beneficial phytochemicals, antioxidants, and...
Nutrition Tip: Food as a way to Cope with our Feelings
Food is a way many people, kids included, cope with their feelings. As a Dietitian who specializes in Eating Disorders, I get calls almost daily, from parents worried that their kids are eating snacking too much and gaining weight, or eating too little and starting to...
FAQs – Frequently asked Questions about Eating Disorders
As a team of Dietitians, we are often asked some common questions about nutrition, food and in particular, eating disorders. Listed below are the answers to these often asked questions about eating disorders. Before you read the list below, the fact that you are...
Body Positive Gift Ideas for the Non-Dieter in Your Life
Here are some different gift ideas for the non-dieter in your life! If you have grown tired of hearing about fad diets and finally recognize (or are starting to recognize) that diets don’t work for the long term, consider giving thoughtful, body positive gifts. These...
Recipes you’ll love to Cook: Pumpkin Pie
This recipe is inspired by a conversation I had with my daughter the other day about holiday desserts… She wondered if it was still the season to eat pumpkin pie. Indeed, it is! Pumpkin pie should (in my opinion) be an everyday food. Did you know that pumpkin pie is a...
Vitamin D and Osteoporosis and Menopause
Did you know this about Vitamin D and Osteoporosis? My recent doctor’s visit where I had a little freak out getting a bone density scan (I’m not going to lie, it did open my eyes!) has really had me focusing on strategies to help my bones stay strong as I age, and I...
Recipe for Roasted Salmon with Yogurt
Looking for a recipe to help you in eating disorder recovery OR to help prevent Osteoporosis? Here is a quick and easy recipe that is rich in bone-building calcium and Vitamin D as well as heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids! Ingredients: 1 cup plain Greek yogurt (2% or...
How Calcium can help prevent Osteoporosis
Yes, getting the proper amount of calcium can help you build stronger bones and prevent osteoporosis. In my last blog post, I shared with you Part 1 in my series focused on Risk and Screening for Osteoporosis at midlife. Today’s focus will be on dietary changes you...
Strategies for Strong Bones at Midlife, Menopause and Beyond
For many people, the first sign of osteoporosis, a debilitating bone disease, is actually breaking their first bone! That’s because it happens far more often than many of us realize. After working hard to avoid going to a doctor’s offices during COVID over the past...
Do you ever fear hunger and food?
I want to share some important information about learning to become an intuitive eater. I have had many people describe a true fear of noticing hunger, of being hungry. If this describes you, let me explain a bit more about this fear. Do you fear hunger? If you have...
The Role of our Gut Microbiome in Menopause: From Weight to Wellness
From having a “gut” instinct to “feeling” something in your gut, our GI tract plays a critical role in the health and well-being of our entire body. Our gut – more specifically, the gut microbiome –is literally a second brain that plays a role in our moods, our immune...
Learn how to set health goals with 10 behaviors that favor health
Self-Care is important to your overall health. This morning I spoke with a new client whose doctor told her she must lose weight; that her weight gain since COVID has led to her developing some health concerns. This was quite distressing, as you can imagine; she...
Setting Healthy Goals Can Help Provide Structure
This pandemic has been wreaking havoc on our collective mental health – mine included! I was fortunate to receive a COVID vaccine and escaped cold and snowy New York to visit my mother and sister in sunny Florida. There is something genuinely life-affirming about warm...
Menopause, Women and Heart Disease: 5 Non-Diet Strategies to Consider
Here are three facts about heart disease that are essential to understand. Did you know that heart disease is the leading killer among women? And that more than one in three adult females has some sort of cardiovascular disease? Did you know that there is an overall...
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