Let's Bust Some Myths About Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are not lifestyle choices!
They’re not your standard concerns about health, weight, and nutrition. Eating disorders involve problematic eating behaviors and distorted body image, and can often result in serious nutrient deficiencies. They can lead to dangerous medical complications of the heart, kidney, liver, brain, lung, gastrointestinal, metabolic, skin, hormone, teeth, blood, and bone. In some cases, eating disorders can lead to death. One interesting aspect of this disease, the person may be medically (and/or psychologically) ill but appear ‘healthy’ to others and in fact be complimented on how well they appear to be functioning and looking.
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Top Tips for Fueling Your Fitness Performance
As an athlete, proper nutrition, and hydration before, during, and after exercise are critical to getting the most out of your training and on race day.
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Embrace Your Body’s Wisdom
Body attunement is closely tied to intuitive eating, which involves listening to your body's natural cues for hunger, fullness, and food preferences
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Fish in Your Diet...It's a No BRAINer
I’m going to cut through the confusion and tell you about some of the nutrients found in seafood (including the famous “omega-3” fats), who should avoid which types of seafood (hint: not everyone), and let you in on some pro tips on selecting the healthiest seafood. Let’s begin by summarizing the impressive health benefits of eating seafood.
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5 Tips for Smart Kid Snacking
How do I get my kiddos to eat healthier snacks, not just the sugary, processed snacks they keep asking about? This is a really common struggle – if this sounds like your house, please know that you’re not alone.
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How to Use Food to Reduce Anxiety
There is no disputing that good nutrition, as an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, helps you to achieve the best physical health. New research shows just how important nutrition can be when it comes to mental health too. Find out how food and self care can reduce anxiety. Kristen Bunich is a registered dietitian from The Intuitive Dietitian and helps clients heal their relationship with food and their bodies.
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How to Spice up your Hydration
We love you water, but sometimes we’re looking for something a little less…meh. The requisite lemon wedge is always nice, but we’re often left wanting more. Let’s explore some ways to jazz it up a bit and transform your water from hydration to libation.
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Let's Bust 5 Nutrition Myths!
Nutrition can be confusing. There is so much information out there, and much of it is flawed, misinterpreted, or flat-out false. Why do nutrition myths exist? It is easy to take a friend or personal experience and feel the bias in how nutrition worked. Let’s bust 5 nutrition myths with a registered dietitian.
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7 Strategies to Reduce Food Waste
If you’ve ever tossed out a container of yogurt that’s approaching its date, discarded veggies that have gone limp, or thrown out a salad that’s just starting to turn a bit brown around the edges, you’re not alone. While food waste is a worldwide phenomenon, the U.S. is a big contributor.
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Ready to Spring Clean Your Recipes?
Has this March weather giving you the itch to clean? Ready to clean out your pantry? How about your meal rotations or recipes?
Switching up to seasonal foods and having a good meal plan will help us prevent our food waste, know what we have available, get more variety in our foods and eat more fresh foods. Take a moment to refresh this spring.
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Gracefully manage the onset of menopause with nutrition
The onset of menopause. Why does this even happen? Some of the reasons behind all these changes include your changing hormones, metabolism, stress levels, and lifestyle.
Because your body goes through all these changes, its nutritional needs also change. Here are some expert nutrition tips to help you the onset of menopause.
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The Gut Brain Connection
Can the food you eat impact your mood and brain connection? We will continue to look at the gut brain connection and what those gut microbiomes are doing. What foods complement each other in our gut health? Can you really feel better by altering what you eat?
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Can Your Food Impact Your Mood?
Can the foods that we eat have an impact on our Mood? What is your gut microbiome and how does it play a part in your health and your mood? Let’s take a quick peak at our gut and try out a couple recipes it will be sure to love as well.
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Intuitive Eating Ditches the Diet Roller Coaster
Intuitive eating is a holistic approach to your relationship with food and your body. Intuitive eaters develop body attunement to better hear physical sensations like hunger and fullness. They also develop skills to block obstacles to that attunement by eliminating diets, decreasing stress, adding self care, improving sleep habits and finding helpful coping strategies.
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Why Diets Don't Work
Diets don’t work. They aren’t only unsuccessful but they are shown to cause MORE weight gain and lead to more disordered eating.
There is a healthier alternative to healing your relationship with food and your body.
Kristen Bunich MA RD LDN is a certified intuitive eating counselor and registered dietitian in Charlotte, NC that practices nutrition therapy with clients on their path to a more value driven life.
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Mindful Eating: Build a Healthier Relationship with Food
Ready to add mindful eating into your toolbox? Taking time to really stop and notice your meals is a great way to strengthen your intuitive eating skills and relationship with food.
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How Can You Become More Body Neutral?
Body Neutrality is a great way to improve your relationship with yourself! It makes the path to Intuitive Eating much more smooth.
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