For years, health professionals have tried to boil nutrition down to calories in and calories out, particularly when discussing concerns about weight. It seems appealing to make it that black and white, but is it an accurate theory? In reality, it’s a gross...
Determining healthy weight is a complicated issue. We can observe the variability in just looking around us; obviously, we come in many different shapes and sizes. Regulation of body weight seems to be a mix of a variety of factors, most notably genetics and...
As a weight-neutral, non-diet dietitian, I believe strongly that weight is not a reliable predictor of health and am not one to measure the success of nutrition interventions based on changes in body weight. I’d love to take the opportunity to explain why I feel...
“I’m totally on board with letting go of diets and food rules and love the idea of becoming a confident eater, but where do I even start?” That might be a question I get more than any other. It’s a really great question and I’ve thought a lot about...
These days, it’s easy to believe that weight determines health. Your experiences could support that belief — perhaps you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes and your doctor has told you to lose weight. Or maybe you’ve visited a physician due to knee pain and they’ve once...
It’s a common assumption that people choose nutritious foods because they know they should while people who don’t are being lazy or don’t care. However, we actually find that people choose food for a variety of reasons and only one of them may be nutrition. Other...
