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...]
20 Tips for Intuitive Eating and Eating Disorder Recovery
Are you seeing so many diet ads this time of year? New Year’s is a great time to get organized, get into a routine, and set goals for the future. What I HATE is all the diet commercials on TV and diet products on Instagram. Weight Watchers, Atkins, Noom, different “weight loss shakes," gym ads… the list goes on and on. I love … [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...]
How do you know if you have disordered eating?
I’ve recently seen a number of clients for nutrition counseling without an “official” eating disorder diagnosis but something was going on with their food, exercise, and body image. They don’t have a clinical eating disorder but they don’t feel like they have a healthy, “normal” relationship with food. I call this “in between” area … [Read more...]