I am leading a 1-hour webinar tomorrow titled Body Positive Nutrition: Integrate the Health at Every Size® Approach Into Your Practice. It’s worth 1 CPEU for dietitians. Participants can join live or watch the video on-demand anytime.
I am excited to share this perspective with my colleagues! Learn more and register.
Recently, I started listening to podcasts on my iPhone. I love being able to learn while walking along the river, driving in my car, or doing chores.
If you haven’t listened to podcasts before, it’s really easy. You probably already have the podcast app on your iPhone. All you have to do is search for a podcast and subscribe.
One podcast I enjoy, the Nutrition Matters Podcast, had mentioned Health at Every Size® (HAES) a few times, but had yet to dive deep into the topic. I reached out the the podcast host, and she invited me to be on the show. The episode was published last week.
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The president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dr. Evelyn Crayton, visited Sacramento last month. She wanted to hear our concerns and priorities for the Academy. So… I mustered up the courage to write a passionate letter about Health at Every Size® (HAES®), and read it aloud at the event.
In this post, I will share segments from the letter as I describe my experience speaking at the event.
I recently finished reading the book Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and Quiet that Critical Inner Voice!). The book is by Connie Sobczak, co-founder of the non-profit organization The Body Positive.
Embody is a beautiful book, woven with heart-wrenching stories and inspiring quotes, that teaches the five competencies of the Be Body Positive Model. The competencies are:
I loved this book. In my experience, the ability to appreciate your body is often a rate-limiting step to rejecting the diet mentality and committing to a Health at Every Size® approach. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a body!
Every parent and dietitian should read Ellyn Satter’s Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming. Ellyn Satter is a registered dietitian and family therapist, and is considered to be the leading expert on feeding and raising healthy kids.
In the book, Satter refutes the idea that parents must force their children to eat less and exercise more to lose weight. In the long run, this technique backfires, as children become preoccupied with food and turned off to physical activity. Rather, Ellyn coaches parents to feed well, parent well, and allow children to grow up to get the bodies that are right for them.
For a summary of the books main points, read on, or click here for a PDF summary from Satter herself.
I recently finished reading Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon, PhD. Bacon agues that promoting weight loss is ineffective in improving health over the long-term. According to the book:
The Health at Every Size (HAES) approach emphasizes:
With the HAES approach, the fundamental principles of nutrition remain the same. It’s still important to eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and unsaturated fats from mostly unprocessed sources. It’s still important to eat breakfast and drink water. If you follow these guidelines and lose weight, that’s fine. But if you follow these guidelines and don’t lose weight, that just may be fine too. What are your thoughts on HAES?
For additional information on HAES, check out:
Also check out this short clip by the Surgeon General, emphasizing a Health at Every Size approach:
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Nicole Geurin, MPH, RD 