
Free Yourself of Diet Culture This January
It’s January, Diet Culture’s favorite month. Time to start strengthening our tools for navigating this challenging time. Many of us are faced with “diet talk” at work, at family gatherings, social events and on social media. Sometimes it’s appropriate to engage and defend your non-diet journey and other times it’s appropriate to “bow out” of or divert the conversation. For those of you who have never heard of the term “Diet Culture” it’s a phrase that describes society’s obs

5 Ways to Keep Diet Culture Out of the Classroom
We live in a time where diet culture is palpable everywhere. We live in a world where fat is shamed and food is scrutinized, and children are hearing it. Children are being fed information at home, at school, from social media and from TV shows and its time we start correcting it. Kids are born intuitive. They are born to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. They honor their taste preferences and they don’t judge food. As adults it’s our jobs to keep that goi

A Registered Dietitian's Thoughts on Why Burger King’s “Real Meal” Campaign “Really Messed Up”
For those of you who didn’t know, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Burger King came out with “Real Meals.” To claim that “Its OK to not be OK” and to poke fun at McDonald’s "Happy Meals." In select locations, Burger King is offering “Blue meals, Pissed meals, DGAF meals, Yaaas meals, and Salty meals.” After doing a little research, I found that the Happy Meal was developed in 1979 as a meal “just for kids” and included colorful packaging and a toy as a part of the m

Scooped Apple Salad with Pazazz
Apples are my all-time favorite fruit! They are crunchy and also soft. They can have a sweet flavor and can also have a tart zingy flavor. They are always in season. Apples are rich in flavonoids, antioxidants and soluble fiber. The soluble fiber in apples can help maintain fullness, lower LDL cholesterol and improve digestion. This type of fiber in apples also feeds the “good bacteria” in the gut to help keep us healthy and protect us from many chronic diseases. I recently f

The Real "About Me." - A Letter to My Community on My Outlook as a Dietitian.
Hi Friends, I wanted to take this time to reintroduce myself and my company / brand. I have been a dietitian since 2013 and my company is almost half a decade old. I have had a chance to explore the industry, see what kind of clients I click with and what kind of information I want to spread. I have had the ability to make mistakes and have had the achievement of amazing success. I have learned and I have grown, and I continue to learn and grow. I am so excited for what Juli

Managing Passover Mindfully
The story of Passover portrays the Jewish people’s liberation from slavery in Egypt. It is described as a spring festival commemorating this freedom and pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After the ten plagues hit the people of Egypt, the Pharaoh freed the Israelites. The Jewish people had to leave their homes in such a hurry that they couldn’t wait for their bread to leaven. Therefore, we eat unleavened bread called Matzoh to remember this time. We kick off this time with a Seder – a