We hope that you have heard about Weight Watcher’s (WW) new plan to offer free memberships to teens age 13-17. We are disturbed and outraged. This is predatory marketing. This is not about … [Read more...]
Where’s the competency in the new “Provider Competencies”?
The recently released “Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity” requires our attention. Two doctors, with the support of 27 agencies including the Academy of Eating … [Read more...]
On Geneen Roth, Sugar, “Do No Harm”, Unicorns and Healing
Cultivating Body Trust® includes acknowledging fear-based behaviors and beliefs about food that make it harder to trust yourself. Examples of these might be feeling powerless to some foods (like … [Read more...]
The Whole 30 is Over, Now What?
The Whole 30—that’s what we’ve heard about the most this year. It seems to be one of the big diet trends right now. That’s right, we called it a diet. Many don’t think the Whole 30 is a diet. The … [Read more...]
Nutritionism
By Dana Sturtevant and Hillary Kinavey In a culture that emphasizes “nutritionism”—a reductionist way of thinking about food that assumes the whole point of eating is to maintain and promote bodily … [Read more...]
