By Lindsey Mazur, RD This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Part of the journey to recovery from an eating disorder involves healing the relationship with food. Let’s talk about how every one of us has a relationship to food and what a healthy relationship might look like. Everybody eats. The way we eat is shaped by many things. When I asked people to reflect on all the things that influence how we eat and what we eat, some common themes emerge: taste culture, traditions, religious beliefs celebrations, birthdays, parties, etc. emotions, happy and sad habit or what we are used to raised to eat a certain way budget diets sustainability environment animal welfare because we are hungry! It’s interesting that most times nutrition and health come
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2015 New Year’s Revolution: Ditch Dieting!
By Lindsey Mazur, RD Tired of making resolutions and not keeping them? You’re not alone. Studies report most people aren’t able to maintain them. If your resolutions are about dieting or weight loss, there’s even more research to show how unhelpful those types of goals are. Here are some reasons on why it’s time to Ditch Dieting and start your New Year’s Revolution: Diets cause weight gain. People on a diet may lose weight for the short term but in the long-term, research shows they gain it all back, plus more. People who diet often end up heavier than if they hadn’t dieted. Diets make us hungry. Diets involve eating less, so naturally we become hungry. This can impact our moods and we can be irritable