How Diet Culture Messages About Cleanses, Detoxes, and Healthcare Can Backfire: Part 2 Recently, I’ve been raising awareness on the caveats of placing excessive attention on “clean eating” and “purifying” the body. Specifically, I’ve been exploring how diet culture messages are getting mixed into these wellness practices causing harm to our health. Unfortunately, [...]
The Dangers of Shaming and Blaming People into Healthy and “Clean” Eating Hello dear friends, Previously, I examined the controversies about cleansing and detoxification among various health professionals. This included the debate over whether to use strategies to mitigate the risks from excessive chemical exposure found in our environment and consumer products. Since [...]
Understanding Eating Disorders Educational Series (Part 2) Are you one in a hundred? That’s the official statistic for the people impacted by an eating disorder, though it is likely a vast underestimate. For the past few weeks, I’ve been discussing diet and wellness culture, food addiction, and eating disorders. After the conclusion to [...]
Diet and movement are very important for overall wellness, and food is powerful as a pleasurable medicine that supplies the body and brain with nourishment and sustenance in order to optimally function. However, in the health and wellness space, sometimes what is considered good for us can be taken to the extreme. If you’ve [...]
Food. Is it… -guilty or innocent? -good or bad? -addictive? What do you think? Here’s another one… Which of the following aspects make food something that we personify, argue about, and/or feel guilty or superior about? the food itself our eating behavior our (misguided) desires the latest diet trend or food tribe moralizing, demonizing, [...]
“Before you drop that potato chip or chocolate bar and start shaming yourself, let’s have a discussion and truly “weigh” the evidence for and against labeling food as an addiction.” – Dr. Sarah In this post, we will continue the discussion on food addiction. First, let’s have a recap on this topic so that [...]
“Focusing on trying to control anything that we can seems quite compelling when we are living in a world where lack of control from the outside seems the norm. This includes managing what and how much we put into our mouths and placing the results neatly into a category of “good” or “bad.” Yet, [...]
This video is an introductory overview of the full 15-minute audio below. The audio-only version is available for the full discussion due to issues with network connections this week. I recently released another article in my series on the flaws in “obesity science.” Once again, this [...]
This article is a continuation of last week’s discussion. To get an overview on the problems with blaming obesity on chronic disease and an introduction to this post, please click here. Please Note: I’m not advocating for junk food. I do believe that “food can be medicine” and have many articles on the benefits [...]
