7 Signs It’s Time to See a Dietitian
Ultimately, seeking out professional guidance from experts like RDNs gives us access into specialized knowledge which equips us far better when tackling our unique concerns regarding our health & nutrition.
Category Food Freedom
The Potential Cardiovascular Health Risks of Following a Keto Diet: What You Need to Know
In this article we will look at the long line of diet’s failure and look at some real life examples of how diets don’t provide long term benefits. Below we look at a study that investigates the keto diet and its relationship to cardiovascular health (spoiler: it's not as beneficial as it claims to be).
Am I Addicted to Junk Food or is it an Eating Disorder?
With the results of the National Poll on Healthy Aging, it is clear that an alarming number of older adults are struggling with addiction to junk food. Eating disorders and food addictions share many characteristics and both can have serious consequences on physical, mental, and emotional health. Working with a dietitian to develop personalized strategies to improve nutrition and eating habits can help older adults break their addiction to unhealthy foods and work towards a healthier lifestyle. A dietitian's role in helping manage food addictions can make all the difference in improving overall health and wellbeing.
Parenting Styles and Eating Habits in Kids: Is There A Pipeline to EDs?
Eating habits and mindsets around food develop from an early age. Researchers have hypothesized that eating habits and behaviors may be associated with different parenting styles and have even suggested that approaching parenting in a certain way can improve a child’s long term relationship with food.
Addressing Gastrointestinal Symptoms in ED Recovery
Eating disorder (ED) recovery is often a complicated journey in and of itself, but many times ED recovery is complicated by gastrointestinal (GI) issues. These issues are sometimes addressed using restrictive or limiting diet therapy.
Mindful Eating: The Mental and Physical Benefits Behind It
Mindfulness is a key principle of intuitive eating, and for a good reason. Mindful eating has been linked to several health benefits, both physically and mentally. Incorporating mindful eating as part of your normal routine can not only improve physical health markers, but it helps build the foundation for fostering a healthy relationship with your body and your food.
Navigating Out of Range Lab Results with Kindness
How many of you have been sent to get routine blood work by a physician only for some of the lab values to come back out of range and be provided information that puts you into panic mode? I know…
Disordered Eating VS Eating Disorders
Recently we have discussed food rules and signs of disordered eating. Disordered eating is not to be confused with eating disorders. The main differentiation between the two is that eating disorders are clinically diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual…
Challenging Your Food Rules
It can be extremely hard to acknowledge our food rules and rituals as disordered, however with time, patience, and practice we can slowly begin to challenge our food rules one-by-one on our path to food freedom.
Getting Started with Intuitive Eating: Rejecting the Diet Mentality
Getting Started with Intuitive Eating: Rejecting the Diet Mentality Introduction If you have been following us for a while now, you know that the Food Ease Team is all about learning to eat intuitively and ditching diet culture. Months back we…