So many of our clients have been talking about Halloween this week. As with any holiday, it's normal to feel a mix of high and low emotions. Many of our clients experience excitement and happiness around the holiday season AND feel stress about food. Halloween brings up all of the feelings, especially when it comes to Halloween … [Read more...]
My Favorite Nutrition Advice
I don't know if it's just me, but I've certainly seen a lot more "new year's resolution" type of advice in 2021 than in previous years. I know the diet industry always ramps up marketing for "the new year", but in this current environment... it just feels outright sleazy. With so many people vulnerable from the chaos of 2020, it's no … [Read more...]
5 Ways Parents Must Support Their Child’s Relationship with Food
Here at Eat With Knowledge, we get many inquiry calls from concerned parents about their child’s eating habits and behaviors around food. This could be in the form of under-fueling like talking about dieting, restricting calories, eliminating food groups, connecting food to "must work out", or extreme picky eating. Parents can also be … [Read more...]
No Child Should Ever Be Put On A Diet
We MUST band together and STOP diet companies from creating another generation of dieters. You may have seen the news that Weight Watchers (or newly branded WW) has launched a "healthy eating" app for kids called Kurbo. Don't be confused by the term “healthy eating”- this is a diet in disguise because it focuses on weight loss. There are … [Read more...]
Definition of “Normal Eating”
With the new year here, many people vow to start a “diet” or lose weight. But when 95% of all diets fail and cause even more problems (physically and emotionally), what is someone to do? So what is normal eating if you’re not going to “diet”? Taken from Ellyn Satter’s website the definition of “normal eating” is: Normal eating … [Read more...]