nutrition education

An Exciting Milestone for Weight-Inclusive Care and Dietetics Education!

weight-inclusive toolkit

The Weight-Inclusive Toolkit is here! After more than five years of intentional development and the contributions of over 100 people with lived and professional experience, the Weight-Inclusive Toolkit from the Weight-Inclusive Toolkit Initiative (WITI) has officially been released. This is the first standardized weight-inclusive curriculum in the history of Nutrition and Dietetics Education – and it is being offered at no cost to

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Redefining Movement – Part 2

listen to your body when it wants to go from movement to resting

By Julia Marquette MS, RD, LDN When deciding how you want to move your body, check in with yourself. You may feel differently in your body from yesterday, last week, last month, and even from an earlier time today. You might ask yourself: Remember that it’s ok if these change from day to day and

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Body Image and Embodiment – Part 2: Distortions in the Coding of Lived-Experience

concepts of embodiment

Recently I was working with a client who reminded me of the myriad ways in which being in a lighter body is positively reinforced. Not only did she experience cultural and familial validation for weight loss throughout her development, she also found her way to weight loss as a strategy to help her feel protected and

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