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Nutrition resources to help you undiet your life. Find strategies, podcasts, and inspiration to reclaim your health from diet culture with intuitive eating practices.
Find Out Why Wellness Apps Like Noom® are Actually Diets.
Episode 23: Wellness Apps - With the sexy TV ads promising you a healthy relationship with food when you're done, you might think - "Wow, this is it! Finally, a wellness app that isn't about weight loss!" At least that's what I initially thought. The beautiful ad...
Who are you really fasting for?
Episode 24: Malak Saddy is back on the Savor Food and Body Podcast to give you a personal and professional view of how religious practices intersect with fasting, eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image. We might be fasting for many different reasons....
Find Out How Diet Culture Shows up in Safe Places
Episode 25: Diet culture is everywhere you look. Do you remember the first diet you went on? How old were you? What was the instigator? Me. I was about 12. It was 40 days before Easter, also known as Lent if you're Catholic. I like to say I grew up half-Catholic - my...
3 Tips to Navigate Weight Bias in Healthcare
Episode 26: Weight Bias in Healthcare: I'm going to assume that your annual trip to the doctor's office is the anniversary you dislike the most. Hopefully, you only have to go through the shameful routine once a year...walk into the office, check-in, get called back...
Sweet Tooth Satisfaction: Why Does Candy Offer a Sweet Stress Relief?
Episode 27: Wait what? Satisfying my sweet tooth with candy can reduce stress? Crazy but true. Of course, you could replace candy with any other food like chips, cookies, or ice cream sandwiches...any and all of these foods have helped my clients feel less stressed...
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INTUITIVE EATING
Sweet Tooth Satisfaction: Why Does Candy Offer a Sweet Stress Relief?
Episode 27: Wait what? Satisfying my sweet tooth with candy can reduce stress? Crazy but true. Of course, you could replace candy with any other food like chips, cookies, or ice cream sandwiches...any and all of these foods have helped my clients feel less stressed...
It’s not what you eat: how emotional stress affects your digestion
Episode 28: When's the last time you thought, "What did I eat that's causing my brain fog...and I'm so bloated...if I could just get my digestion under control!" Or maybe you swing between constipation and diarrhea as your brain spirals into...maybe it's the...
PODCASTS
What do hummus, tank tops, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding have to do with your relationship with food?
Episode 16 Culture Shock: "You know those scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding with all the crazy family members fussing over the bride and groom's big day? Yeah, that's pretty much my life." This is the first thing Malak Saddy said to me when I first met her in our...
Daily Rituals to Reduce Mood Swings and Increase Energy Levels
Episode 19: I hate mid-afternoon energy drags, don't you? Back in my dieting days, I couldn't figure out why, when I'd been so "good" with my eating all day, I'd end up dragging myself through the finish line of the day (let's be honest, what was left on the to-do...