How accurate are nutrition information panels?
Diet-culture loves numbers – we’re sold the idea that we can achieve tight and calculated control over food and our bodies through counting, tracking, weighing and measuring.
5 ways to shut down diet-talk in the office
Office diet-talk can be relentless, triggering and difficult to avoid. If 8 hours of carb, keto and cleanse commentary is making you want to ride your wheelie chair down the fire escape, here’s a few ideas for you: Excuse yourself and walk away. After a few smoke-bomb moments they’ll start to get the picture you’re not here to validate their dieting or body-issues. Offer a few “mm-hmms” before changing the […]
When Intuitive Eating Becomes Another Diet..
Being surrounded by a diet-obsessed culture full of rights and wrongs, dos and don’ts, can make it hard to adjust to a totally new concept in which there is no “right way”. When developing the skills of an intuitive eater, one can become stuck in thinking that they can only eat when they are hungry, or that they should only ever eat foods they really feel like them. Another common […]
Show up, do the work, trust in the process
I’ve recently returned to running after abandoning it for some time, with the goal of completing a marathon at the end of the year. During tonight’s run, I got to a point along the course where I would normally fatigue and slow down before stopping..
Quitting is sometimes the best option
During a conversation with a client this week, it dawned on me how unhelpful mantras such as “failure is not an option” and “don’t quit now” can be as I listened to a client who lamented “I am never able to stick to anything”. She talked about walking away from jobs, never finishing books she started, giving up on diet plans, and even changing therapists throughout her journey. While I […]
Why chocolate is NOT a “bad food” – Dietitian secret revealed
That’s right, you read the title correctly. CFIH Dietitians are here to let you in on (yet another) secret. Chocolate is NOT a “bad food.” A big problem in today’s society is the ‘all or nothing’ approach to food. This leads people to labelling themselves as “bad” if they eat what they have learnt is a “bad food” and “good” if they eat a “good food”. Does this lead to […]
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The fitness trend that’s actually bad for you
Stop following people on social media who make you feel insecure, fat or ugly. It’s probably a very long list. In this age of filters and fakery, there are too many perfect people with perfect lives. Even Selena Gomez, said to be the most followed Instagrammer on the planet with 133 million followers, says “I always end up feeling like shit when I look at Instagram.” In an interview with […]
The New Year’s Resolution You Shouldn’t Make
This year when making your new years’ resolutions there is certainly one new year’s resolution you shouldn’t make. I urge you to resist the pressures of the dieting industry and instead resolve to treat yourself well. If greater health, happiness or self-worth are some of your new year’s resolutions, I assure you that being at war with your body is not the way to achieve those goals. Allow me to […]
This year, make it your year for sustainable health
With the New Year here, it is inevitable that many of us get excited about the opportunity for a fresh start and another chance to achieve those unfulfilled resolutions. If you’re a female aged between 8 and 80, living in Western society then it’s likely you’ve thought about losing weight. It’s also likely that you’re aware of the overabundance of products and plans promising quick fix solutions. However, you’ve probably […]
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‘Tis the season..
It’s said to be the most wonderful time of the year… But for many people, the festive season presents significant challenges. This may be especially true for people who struggle with their relationship with food and/or their bodies. With the pressure to “eat and be merry”, people who do not feel joyful (especially those with eating, weight, and body-image concerns) may feel the discrepancy even more intensely. In fact, many […]
To exercise or not to exercise?
Regular exercise participation is prescribed for many people with physical and mental health conditions. Suggested benefits of exercise are multiplying daily as science discovers more about the human body. How do we know, however, when exercise no longer supports (and rather, degrades) our patients’ health? ‘Harmful exercise’ describes exercise behaviours that degrade, rather than enhance, an individual’s physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual, and/or environmental health. Calogero and Pedrotty (2004) identified […]
Good Health Magazine: Defining women by the mark they leave on the world
Centre for Integrative Health (CFIH) is pleased to have had their first article published in this month’s edition of Good Health Magazine. Over the next 12 months, CFIH will be a monthly contributor to the magazine. We aspire to utilise this opportunity as a platform from which to increase awareness of eating- and weight- concerns and encourage readers experiencing such concerns to access appropriate treatment and support. Given we aim to […]
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