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The Hidden Opponent: Eating Disorders in Athletes
MEDICALLY REVIEWED BY ALIDA IACOBELLIS, REGISTERED DIETITIAN (RD), MHSC WRITING AND RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY ADELE Lewis When athletes sign up to participate in sports, they expect to gain many benefits. Some include physical fitness, being a part of a team,...
Eating Disorder Recovery Resources for Parents and Caregivers
Helpful Videos for Parents and Caregivers Dr. Laura Hill explains how differences in the brain make eating so challenging when you have an eating disorder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEysOExcwrE Eva Musby provides meal support tips for how to help your child or...
What is The MORE Method?
The Development of an Eating Disorder Recovery Framework Within her first years of working as a dietitian in the field of mental health and eating disorder recovery, Alida gained exposure to multiple different evidence-based treatment modalities including Family Based...
Welcome, Alana Freitag RD!
Hi folks – Alida here! To kick off 2022, I’m excited to share with you that MORE Method Nutrition is now a group practice! That’s right, it’s no longer just me, we’ve welcomed a new dietitian to the team and I couldn’t be more excited for you to meet her. As a...
What is Body Positivity, Really?
Medically reviewed by Alida Iacobellis, Registered Dietitian (RD), MHSc Writing and research contributions by Alana Freitag, Olivia Kuhlmann, and Ann Le In this post, we dive into what body positivity is, how the movement started, what it's meant to symbolize, and...
Health At Every Size (HAES): Social Justice and Redefining Healthy Weight
Medically reviewed by Alida Iacobellis, Registered Dietitian (RD), MHSc Writing and research contributions by Alana Freitag, Olivia Kuhlmann, and Ann Le In Part 2 of this series, Health At Every Size (HAES): The Surprising Truth About Your Weight and the Health...
Health At Every Size (HAES): The Surprising Truth About Your Weight and the Health Impacts of Weight Bias
Medically reviewed by Alida Iacobellis, Registered Dietitian (RD), MHSc Writing and research contributions by Alana Freitag, Olivia Kuhlmann, and Ann Le As we covered in Part 1 of this HAES series, Health At Every Size (HAES): An Introduction to the Non-Diet Approach,...
Health At Every Size (HAES): An Introduction to the Non-Diet Approach
Over the past few decades, our society has become more and more obsessed with weight loss and the idealization of thin bodies as being the standard of health (1). The Health at Every Size (HAES) approach is an alternative to traditional weight management strategies and challenges the automatic belief that thin bodies are healthy bodies.
Is Intuitive Eating Right For You?
An obvious yet commonly denied fact about diets and diet products is that they all fail us over the long-term. Most of us will regain any weight lost by restricting and depriving ourselves, and then some. Fortunately, there’s an alternative — a non-diet approach...