As we begin another New Year, I am sure that many of you are thinking about your goals, resolutions, and ways to improve yourselves in 2024. Consider this: instead of burdening yourselves with restrictive diets which only lead to feelings of deprivation, backsliding...
World Kindness Day reminds us to practice kindness in our daily lives through empathy, understanding, and cooperation to create a more harmonious and caring world. With the raging conflict in the Middle East, this has been more challenging than ever for many people....
Sleep plays a crucial role in our overall health and well-being, and it is especially critical when it comes to nutrition. As dietitians, we work with our clients in many ways to help them achieve their health and nutrition goals. In this work together, we look at...
Body image is a deeply sensitive and personal issue that affects people of all ages and genders. At this time of the year, heading into the spring break season that leads into summer, we will start hearing statements like this from our clients: I can’t go on that...
Life can sometimes feel very hard and full of stress but there are ways to overcome this. The COVID pandemic is far from over, but life moves on, and we must find a return to a “new” normal. At the same time, people are struggling with multiple stressors outside of...
We need to learn to care for our body the way it is today, right here and right now. For many this time of year, the seeming answer to feeling better about themselves and improving body image means losing weight or other means of changing their body. But having the...
The Thanksgiving holiday can be filled with dread when you are working on recovery from an eating disorder or letting go of diets. Living in diet culture, we are surrounded by people inadvertently judging food choices, while at the same time commenting on their own...
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...
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 really...
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