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Can Adults Change Their Food Taste?

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Don’t Get Ripped Off By Fish Scams

Do You Use “Diet Talk”

Do You Use “Diet Talk”

Weight Bias In Health Care Harms Many

Weight Bias In Health Care Harms Many

Body dysmorphia Is a Serious Problem

Body dysmorphia Is a Serious Problem

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A Fat Shamed Marathon Runner Responds

The History of Our Obsession With Dieting

The History of Our Obsession With Dietin...

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Trauma, Attachment, and Eating – I...

Here’s Why Cleanses and Challenges Don’t Work

Here’s Why Cleanses and Challenges...

The Cost of Dieting

The Cost of Dieting

Is Watching Our Weight Killing Us?

Is Watching Our Weight Killing Us?

Questioning the Biblical Based Diet Trend

Questioning the Biblical Based Diet Tren...

A Cooking Challenge Helped This Woman Embrace Intuitive Eating

A Cooking Challenge Helped This Woman Em...

Mindful Eating Is Actually an Old Idea

Mindful Eating Is Actually an Old Idea

Stop Getting Hysterical About High Body Weight

Stop Getting Hysterical About High Body ...

New Proof of a Genetic Link That Keeps Some Slim

New Proof of a Genetic Link That Keeps S...

British Science Festival Discussion of Weight Focuses on Social Justice Issues

British Science Festival Discussion of W...

Stop Commenting on Appearance or Eating Habits

Stop Commenting on Appearance or Eating ...

Don’t Let Misleading Headlines Lead You Astray

Don’t Let Misleading Headlines Lea...

Let’s Talk About Those Skinny Clothes You’re Keeping

Let’s Talk About Those Skinny Clot...

Ineffective Weight Loss Remedies

Ineffective Weight Loss Remedies

A Short Walk After Dinner Has Benefits

A Short Walk After Dinner Has Benefits

How Shoddy Data Becomes Viral Science

How Shoddy Data Becomes Viral Science

Falling in Love…With a Vegetable

Falling in Love…With a Vegetable

Some Insights From 18 Years Of Dieting

Some Insights From 18 Years Of Dieting

What Are Your Kids Learning About Health and Weight at School?

What Are Your Kids Learning About Health...

What If Overeating Doesn’t Cause Obesity?

What If Overeating Doesn’t Cause O...

Beware the Celebrity “Nutritionist”

Beware the Celebrity “Nutritionist...

Stop Focusing on Nutritional Minutiae

Stop Focusing on Nutritional Minutiae

New Breast Cancer Research Has a Surprising Outcome

New Breast Cancer Research Has a Surpris...

Emotional Support Chicken Is Here To Save Your Day

Emotional Support Chicken Is Here To Sav...

Sugar Shaming in the Workplace

Sugar Shaming in the Workplace

Every Body Deserves Respect

Every Body Deserves Respect

How Ranch Dressing Became an American Obsession

How Ranch Dressing Became an American Ob...

Does Your Personality Affect Your Food Choice?

Does Your Personality Affect Your Food C...

The World Peace Diet

The World Peace Diet

Understanding “Bulletproof” Coffee

Understanding “Bulletproof” ...

New Recommendations For Preventing Heart Disease That Go Beyond Weight

New Recommendations For Preventing Heart...

Your Worth Is More Than a Number

Your Worth Is More Than a Number

Do You Know About Sarcopenia?

Do You Know About Sarcopenia?

Stop Worrying About Holiday Eating—and Do This Instead

Stop Worrying About Holiday Eating—and D...

Protein Is Good But There Is Such a Thing as Too Much

Protein Is Good But There Is Such a Thin...

Despite Being Debunked Detox Diets Are Still Being Marketed

Despite Being Debunked Detox Diets Are S...

Is The Political Climate Causing You To Eat Your Feelings?

Is The Political Climate Causing You To ...

Dieting Craziness In Hindsight

Dieting Craziness In Hindsight

Research Supports a Weight Inclusive Approach

Research Supports a Weight Inclusive App...

Not So Fast With Popping Those Probiotics

Not So Fast With Popping Those Probiotic...

Yep, It’s Still Your Mother’s Diet

Yep, It’s Still Your Mother’...

Marketer Amy Porterfield: There’s No Shame In Emotional Eating

Marketer Amy Porterfield: There’s ...

You Can Be an Athlete In Any Body

You Can Be an Athlete In Any Body

BPA Is Linked To Obesity So Why Is It Still Everywhere?

BPA Is Linked To Obesity So Why Is It St...

This Diet From the 70’s Will Give You A Laugh

This Diet From the 70’s Will Give ...

Dieting Has Become Too Toxic Even For Weight Watchers

Dieting Has Become Too Toxic Even For We...

Diets Don’t Work For Weight Or Health

Diets Don’t Work For Weight Or Hea...

Rethinking Sustainable Eating

Rethinking Sustainable Eating

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Eating On the Go Isn’t the Norm Ou...

Don’t Miss The Mini Course

Don’t Miss The Mini Course

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Nutritionist Reinforces Three Messages f...

What You Think You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

What You Think You Know About Obesity Is...

What Is Metabolism?

What Is Metabolism?

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Opening Our Eyes To Thin Privilege

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Maybe Your Sensitivity Isn’t to Gluten

Maybe Your Sensitivity Isn’t to Gl...

New Research On Keto Diets and Diabetes Risk

New Research On Keto Diets and Diabetes ...

Have You Ever Wondered Why Expensive Pasta Tastes Better?

Have You Ever Wondered Why Expensive Pas...

Walking For Mental Health

Walking For Mental Health

Revolution Issue Awareness Practice #1

Revolution Issue Awareness Practice #1

Lack Of Sleep Is Catastrophic To Health and Productivity

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Try This When Body Positivity Is a Bridge Too Far

Try This When Body Positivity Is a Bridg...

Do Hot Baths Burn As Many Calories As Exercise?

Do Hot Baths Burn As Many Calories As Ex...

The Woman In The Window

The Woman In The Window

What’s Really In Your Junk Food?

What’s Really In Your Junk Food?

Are You Chasing False Health Idols?

Are You Chasing False Health Idols?

Stretching Is Still Important

Stretching Is Still Important

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Dieting Doesn’t Leave You Skinnier or Healthier

Dieting Doesn’t Leave You Skinnier...

Don’t Let Diet Mentality Undermine Intuitive Eating

Don’t Let Diet Mentality Undermine...

There Are No Simple One Size Fits All Solutions For Weight Loss

There Are No Simple One Size Fits All So...

A Deeper Explanation of Why Gut Bacteria Matters

A Deeper Explanation of Why Gut Bacteria...

A Letter From My Body

A Letter From My Body

The Energy Deficit Approach To Weight Loss Isn’t Supported In the Research

The Energy Deficit Approach To Weight Lo...

Good Nutrition Can Fight Stress and Depression

Good Nutrition Can Fight Stress and Depr...

Who Knew Chewing Gum Was So Controversial?

Who Knew Chewing Gum Was So Controversia...

Other Causes of Diabetes

Other Causes of Diabetes

A Personal Essay On Being a Food Writer with Food Issues

A Personal Essay On Being a Food Writer ...

Your Brain and Weight Loss

Your Brain and Weight Loss

A Different Experience of Food

A Different Experience of Food

How An Apple Illustrates Problems With Our Food System

How An Apple Illustrates Problems With O...

Beware: The Fake News Epidemic Also Affects Your Beliefs About Health

Beware: The Fake News Epidemic Also Affe...

New Research On Artificial Sweeteners

New Research On Artificial Sweeteners

I Want to Stop Dieting, But Intuitive Eating is Making Me Fat – Help!

I Want to Stop Dieting, But Intuitive Ea...

Fat Discrimination Is Endemic and Harmful to All

Fat Discrimination Is Endemic and Harmfu...

There’s No Magic in Lemon Water

There’s No Magic in Lemon Water

Revolution Issue Journaling

Revolution Issue Journaling

How Junk Food Marketing Changes Traditional Food Cultures

How Junk Food Marketing Changes Traditio...

The Satisfaction Factor: Pleasure In Eating Is Everything

The Satisfaction Factor: Pleasure In Eat...

Safety Behaviors Can Undermine Your Efforts to Ditch Dieting

Safety Behaviors Can Undermine Your Effo...

Grief and Weight Gain

Grief and Weight Gain

Don’t Freak Out: Wearing Shoes Inside Won’t Cause Weight Gain

Don’t Freak Out: Wearing Shoes Ins...

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Not Paying Attention To The Psychology O...

Alcohol Use Can Be Dangerous After Weight Loss Surgery

Alcohol Use Can Be Dangerous After Weigh...

Do Calorie Counts On Menus Help?

Do Calorie Counts On Menus Help?

Writing Is a Powerful Tool for Change

Writing Is a Powerful Tool for Change

Introducing the “Revolution” Issue

Introducing the “Revolution” Issue

Mac And Cheese (And The Value Of Comfort Food)

Mac And Cheese (And The Value Of Comfort...

The Alkaline Diet: An Evidence-Based Review Shows It’s Bunk

The Alkaline Diet: An Evidence-Based Rev...

There’s A Lot Going On In Dietland

There’s A Lot Going On In Dietland

Why I’m Grateful for My Struggle with Binge Eating

Why I’m Grateful for My Struggle with Bi...

Research Fraud Case Study on the Connection Between Chocolate and Weight Loss

Research Fraud Case Study on the Connect...

A Surprising New Finding About Diabetes

A Surprising New Finding About Diabetes

Fat Pride Is About Dignity, Not Health

Fat Pride Is About Dignity, Not Health

The Marketing of Fatphobia

The Marketing of Fatphobia

Fitness DVD Results Exposed As Fraudulent

Fitness DVD Results Exposed As Fraudulen...

A Story of Weight Loss That Didn’t Turn Out Like In The Magazines

A Story of Weight Loss That Didn’t Turn ...

A Nutritional Parody of Hotel California

A Nutritional Parody of Hotel California

Connecting Gut Bacteria to Trauma Response

Connecting Gut Bacteria to Trauma Respon...

The Coach is In: Watch a Binge Eating Coaching Session

The Coach is In: Watch a Binge Eating Co...

The Challenge of Feeding 10 Billion People

The Challenge of Feeding 10 Billion Peop...

Try This Instead of Portion Control

Try This Instead of Portion Control

A Nutritional Belief To Let Go

A Nutritional Belief To Let Go

Review of The Obesity Code – Shedding New Light on What Drives Weight Gain and Loss

Review of The Obesity Code – Shedding Ne...

Understanding the Keto Diet

Understanding the Keto Diet

The Wellness Diet Trap

The Wellness Diet Trap

Binge Eating, Mindful Movement, and Tuning Into Your Body

Binge Eating, Mindful Movement, and Tuni...

A Dieting Parody of The Bachelor

A Dieting Parody of The Bachelor

The Hidden Danger of “Clean” Eating

The Hidden Danger of “Clean”...

It’s Not the Bacon – It’s the Nitrates

It’s Not the Bacon – It̵...

Stop Dieting and Start Living

Stop Dieting and Start Living

Magical Thinking and Your Weight

Magical Thinking and Your Weight

The Science on Inflammation Is Not As Solid As It May Seem

The Science on Inflammation Is Not As So...

The 70 Year Old Research that Shows Why Dieting Doesn’t Work

The 70 Year Old Research that Shows Why ...

Coffee – Healthy For You or Not?

Coffee – Healthy For You or Not?

What I’ve Learned From Stock Photography

What I’ve Learned From Stock Photography...

The Power of Beliefs on Your Waistline

The Power of Beliefs on Your Waistline

Unruly Bodies and What It Means To Be Human – A Series

Unruly Bodies and What It Means To Be Hu...

Science Says Sugar Addiction Isn’t Real

Science Says Sugar Addiction Isn’t...

A Story of Sadness and Ice Cream

A Story of Sadness and Ice Cream

Your Emotional Eating Has Nothing to do With Food

Your Emotional Eating Has Nothing to do ...

Is Dieting the Socially Acceptable Eating Disorder?

Is Dieting the Socially Acceptable Eatin...

Another Reason To Stand Up and Get Active

Another Reason To Stand Up and Get Activ...

It Wasn’t Weight: What I Gained by Giving Up Dieting

It Wasn’t Weight: What I Gained by Givin...

Is the Media Lying About Weight Loss?

Is the Media Lying About Weight Loss?

Why You Crave Peanut Butter

Why You Crave Peanut Butter

An Interview With Traci Mann of the Eating Lab

An Interview With Traci Mann of the Eati...

Use Willpower the Right Way

Use Willpower the Right Way

Health Care Can Hurt When You’re Overweight

Health Care Can Hurt When You’re O...

What Determines How Long You Will Live?

What Determines How Long You Will Live?

When Loneliness Drives Emotional Eating

When Loneliness Drives Emotional Eating

The Healthiest People In The World Eat A Lot Of Carbs

The Healthiest People In The World Eat A...

A Mindfulness Practice for Changing Your Old Stories

A Mindfulness Practice for Changing Your...

Sadness Pays a Visit

Sadness Pays a Visit

Three P’s For Less Stress In Eating

Three P’s For Less Stress In Eatin...

Grief Chocolate

Grief Chocolate

What the Woman In the Window Taught Me About Body Image

What the Woman In the Window Taught Me A...

Losing It

Eating Disorder Awareness

Eating Disorder Awareness

This Is Us – The Effects Of Toxic Stress On Weight, Anxiety, and Addiction

This Is Us – The Effects Of Toxic ...

Diabetic Patients In The Developing World Aren’t Obese – What’s Going On?

Diabetic Patients In The Developing Worl...

Overcoming Fear of Food

Overcoming Fear of Food

Why Calories Don’t Count (Or At Least Aren’t Everything)

Why Calories Don’t Count (Or At Le...

Hunger and Fullness vs. Intuitive Eating

Hunger and Fullness vs. Intuitive Eating

Is Your Eating Emotionally Driven?

Is Your Eating Emotionally Driven?

Turmeric and the Importance of Contrary Evidence

Turmeric and the Importance of Contrary ...

Susan David on the Price of Refusing to Accept the Full Weight of Her Grief

Susan David on the Price of Refusing to ...

Science, Not Shame, Is Behind Weight Re-Gain

Science, Not Shame, Is Behind Weight Re-...

If You Were Bullied as a Child You’re Twice as Likely to Be Overweight

If You Were Bullied as a Child You’...

Women Eat: A Revolution in Small Steps

Women Eat: A Revolution in Small Steps

Want to End the Diet – Binge Cycle for Good?

Want to End the Diet – Binge Cycle...

Why Willpower Doesn’t Work But These Tips Do

Why Willpower Doesn’t Work But The...

Healthy Swaps for Diet Soda

Healthy Swaps for Diet Soda

Vintage Weight Loss Ads Reveal How Far We’ve Come (And How Far We Have To Go)

Vintage Weight Loss Ads Reveal How Far W...

Busting Sugar Myths

Busting Sugar Myths

Maybe Eating Healthier Isn’t Your Best Goal

Maybe Eating Healthier Isn’t Your ...

Here’s a Fast Way to Switch Off Stress

Here’s a Fast Way to Switch Off St...

Weight and Health: What Does the Research Show?

Weight and Health: What Does the Researc...

Let’s Talk About Those Last Few Pounds

Let’s Talk About Those Last Few Po...

Food vs. Diet Food

Food vs. Diet Food

Maybe It’s Not Because You’re Fat

Maybe It’s Not Because You’r...

Fatphobia Is Hurting, Not Helping

Fatphobia Is Hurting, Not Helping

The Best Diet: No Diet

The Best Diet: No Diet

Resist Cravings With a Mindfulness Technique That’s Proven to Work

Resist Cravings With a Mindfulness Techn...

What It Looks Like to Live Without Shame

What It Looks Like to Live Without Shame

Here’s Why You Should Stop With Your Fat Talk

Here’s Why You Should Stop With Yo...

How Does an Eating Psychology Coach Handle Her Own Daughter’s Picky Eating?

How Does an Eating Psychology Coach Hand...

16 Women Tell What Helped Them Stop Emotional Eating

16 Women Tell What Helped Them Stop Emot...

The Dangers of “Clean” Eating

The Dangers of “Clean” Eatin...

An Example of How Restrictive Diets Create Obsession

An Example of How Restrictive Diets Crea...

Putting Sugar Into Perspective

Putting Sugar Into Perspective

Do You Really “Use Up” Your Willpower?

Do You Really “Use Up” Your ...

When In Rome: Adopting the Italian Approach to Eating

When In Rome: Adopting the Italian Appro...

Become Aware of How You Are Being Influenced to Believe Fat is Bad

Become Aware of How You Are Being Influe...

Are You Comfortable With How Your Healthcare Providers Address Your Weight?

Are You Comfortable With How Your Health...

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