by melanee.dahl | Feb 28, 2025 | Mental Health
It likely comes as no surprise that nutrition impacts women’s health in many diverse ways. Indeed, nutrition plays a critical role at every stage in a woman’s life starting from her earliest years to starting menstruation to perimenopause to life after menopause. Yet...
by melanee.dahl | Feb 24, 2025 | Disordered Eating
The way society approaches nutrition to support chronic illness can cause more harm than good. Here’s how it typically goes: you finally get a diagnosis (sometimes after weeks, months, or even years of seeking answers) and then are told to change your diet. Usually,...
by melanee.dahl | Jan 8, 2025 | Disordered Eating, Mental Health
Eating disorder recovery is hard. For many people it is the hardest thing they will ever have to overcome. Not only that, but it can be lonely as those who have never suffered from an eating disorder do not understand how complex these disorders are and say very...
by melanee.dahl | Dec 18, 2024 | Intuitive Eating
Tis the season for toxic messages about food and body to abound, leaving us feeling high anxiety around every meal, snack, and gathering. And meal or holiday snacking comes with a heavy side of guilt. We feel obligated to start planning for how we will atone for...
by melanee.dahl | May 7, 2024 | Fat Activism
If you are a person who is considered “overweight” or “obese” by the BMI, chances are you are a person who has experienced weight stigma. Weight stigma shows up in many ways from sinister comments to making less money due to one’s size to being unable to fit on public...
