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A Dietitian's Review on the Alkaline Diet

Something that I’ve noticed a lot over the past couple of years is an increase in marketing and production of alkaline foods and...

Why You Shouldn't Try Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is a diet that has built momentum over the past few years for its supposed benefits on health and weight loss. In...

Why You Should Never Do a Cleanse or a Detox - From a Dietitian

Living in a society very focused on diet and weight loss, we all have seen an ad or promotion for some form of detox or cleanse. We’ve...

The Paleo Diet - A Review from a Dietitian

Let’s chat about another diet that is still very popular in diet culture and needs to be debunked. The Paleo Diet. The Paleolithic Diet...

Whole 30 Diet: Review from a RDN

One of the diets that I’m still so surprised to see frequently and hear questions about is the Whole30 diet. Similarly to most diets out...

Debunking the Keto Diet

Over the last few years, I have seen and been asked as a dietitian by so many people how I feel about the ketogenic or “keto” diet. It’s...

Practical Hunger in Intuitive Eating: Why You Should Sometimes Eat When You're Not Hungry

Did you know that there are multiple types of hunger? Practical hunger, what we are discussing in today’s blog post is just one of four...

5 Tips to Begin Practicing Intuitive Movement

Movement is an important aspect of our daily lives and is the 9th principle of intuitive eating. The philosophy and mindset behind...

The Hunger and Fullness Scale: How to Begin Honoring Your Hunger

For those individuals who have been stuck in the constant loop of diet culture, the idea of beginning to trust your body and its internal...

Emotional Hunger vs Physical Hunger: What's the Difference?

When was the last time you stopped and thought about why you were eating? In today’s diet culture, there are a million different people...

Clearing Up Intuitive Eating Misconceptions

When I first began learning about intuitive eating, it blew my mind! The idea that nutrition corresponded directly to the body’s internal...

A Non-Diet Approach to the New Year

As a new year is fastly approaching us, so do the many New Year’s resolutions revolving around dieting and weight loss. In fact, 50% of...

Navigating Post-Holiday Food Guilt

It’s the week after Thanksgiving and with that the holiday season is quickly approaching. For many people, the holidays are a time to...