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The Difference Between Mindful Eating & Intuitive Eating
Have you ever heard of mindful eating? How about intuitive eating? If you have, you may be wondering what's the difference between the...
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Mar 15, 20226 min read
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Should You Worry About Your BMI?
Ah, BMI. A controversial topic among dietitians and other health professionals these days. For years, we seemed to blindly accept this...
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Aug 26, 20216 min read
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How to Be a Normal Eater
Eating has become confusing, which in and of itself is confusing because food is a basic necessity to life. Why all the confusion? Well,...
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Jun 28, 20215 min read
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Why Weight Loss Isn't Always the Answer
Weight-centered healthcare is the norm, but should it be? Healthcare professionals (RDs like myself included) are generally taught to...
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Apr 28, 20215 min read
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Why I Will Never Diet Again
Lately, I've become pretty passionate about the anti-diet movement that is happening right now. Registered Dietitians and nutritionists...
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Mar 22, 20216 min read
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Disordered Eating: What It Is and How It Happens
I've talked about disordered eating before here and on my Instagram page (@foodhealthrd), but I realized I have really only mentioned it...
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Feb 17, 20215 min read
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How to Have a Non-diet New Year
Happy New Year! We did it. We made it through the strangest, most stressful, saddest, most anger inducing year ever. I hope that there...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read
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Benefits of 5 Common Holiday Foods (And Why You Should Eat Them All, and Then Some)
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that 2020 is the worst and the upcoming holidays are going to be different and, let's...
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Nov 25, 20204 min read
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I'm Back!
It's been a long time since I've posted on here, but I have a good excuse, I promise! I had a baby! My daughter, Holly Lynn, was born on...
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Nov 7, 20203 min read
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Intuitive Eating: A Way to Stop Counting Calories and Love Food Again
I don't know about you, but I love food. Always have, always will. According to my mom, I rarely threw up as a baby, probably because I...
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Jul 21, 20204 min read
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Should You Try Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting seemed to come onto the scene fast and strong in recent years. If I remember correctly, the first time I heard about...
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Jun 24, 20205 min read
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What I've Learned About Health During Pregnancy
Pregnancy has been nothing like I imagined. I must admit, I used to be scared of pregnancy and there was a long time I thought I never...
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Jun 14, 20205 min read
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How To Conquer the Grocery Store
Even though some aspects of grocery stores have changed over the last couple of months, the basics are the same. At its core, a grocery...
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May 31, 20206 min read
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Working Through 7 Common Food Myths
Man, there are some crazy ideas about food out there. Google defines a myth as a "widely held but false belief or idea", and if you ask...
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May 24, 202010 min read
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Your Brain on Food
Mental health is a big topic these days, and for good reason. Even before we were put on lockdown with minimal human interaction, people...
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May 19, 20205 min read
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Cancer Sucks
As an RD currently practicing in oncology, I felt I just HAD to write at least one post about the subject. Many of my patients want to...
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May 14, 20206 min read
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"Everything in Moderation" - My Take on Diet Culture
When it comes to food, you've probably heard the saying, "everything in moderation". The definition of moderation is the avoidance of...
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May 12, 20204 min read
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Food and COVID-19: Can You Reduce Your Risk?
So this coronavirus thing is pretty crazy, right? Sometimes I think I don't remember life before the pandemic. What is traveling? What...
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May 9, 20204 min read
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A (Possibly) Sustainable Idea: Lab-Grown Meat
Have you heard of something called lab-grown meat? Perhaps the term cultured meat rings a bell? I'll be honest, I have barely heard of...
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May 7, 20203 min read
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Gluten Free, Wheat Free, Grain Free...What's the Deal?
It's nearly impossible to keep up with all the new diets these days. First we're supposed to eat low fat, then we're supposed to eat high...
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May 5, 20204 min read
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