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How important is it to love one’s body? Body image has a strong direct impact on one’s mental state, but loving your body is not...

What should you do when you hear kids using fat as a pejorative? Maybe someone called your kid fat in camp and they've now run home in...

What does 'diet culture' actually mean? According to Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDRD (author of Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money,...

It's that time of year again! It's hot outside, and that means pool season has officially begun. For many people, the pool is synonymous...

Your parents are my older siblings, and gurus of sorts to me. I ask their advice on practically everything, and even when it's...

A popular, and well-intentioned, children's magazine recently published overt messaging supporting dieting and weight loss in kids as...

Has all of the 'body positivity' advocacy got you feeling less than positive about yourself for feeling less than positive about your...

"As a child I never heard one woman say to me, 'I love my body.' Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend--no one woman has ever...

The traditional approach to providing nutritious food to our kids looks something like this: “I will only be able to control what my...

The first principle discussed in the Intuitive Eating book is Reject Diet Culture. Why is rejecting diet culture a necessary prerequisite...

This has been the year of “imagining the unimaginable”. So much that we thought we could never live without (or with), we now are. Many...

Our society has long considered it socially inappropriate to comment about someone’s weight gain, but commenting on someone’s weight loss...

Thinner. Does. Not. Equal. Healthier. ⁣ ⁣ The truth is, when someone appears thinner, we have no idea how they lost weight. It may have...

I was once discussing Intuitive Eating with someone who said that she sometimes wonders if it’s the best approach in terms of religious...

“Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” -Unknown This quote encompasses the worth of...