Holidays and Mixed Blessings – Eating Disorders and the Holidays

Holidays and Mixed Blessings The time is near! A time to celebrate! A time to rejoice! A time to spend with loved ones. But that’s not the case for everyone. It’s hard to lose loved ones and even harder to take part in holiday festivities without your loved ones. The...

Parenting and Peer Pressure – Helping Prevent an Eating Disorder

Let’s face it.  We all want to fit in. We tell ourselves that we are individuals but we imitate what we see around us.   For the most part, we dress alike, talk alike, work alike, and live many aspects of our lives just like our neighbors. So is it any wonder our kids...

Parenting and Peer Pressure – Helping Prevent an Eating Disorder

Let’s face it.  We all want to fit in. We tell ourselves that we are individuals but we imitate what we see around us.   For the most part, we dress alike, talk alike, work alike, and live many aspects of our lives just like our neighbors. So is it any wonder our kids...

Fad Diets – Don’t let them pave the way to an eating disorder!

Have you ever walked down the magazine aisle and took inventory of all the diet-related topics that appear on the cover of countless health, fitness, and beauty magazines? It never ceases to amaze me how many new diet plans and products are being introduced to the...

Summer Nutrition Tips, Part 5 – How important IS breakfast??

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” I’m sure most of us have probably heard this phrase numerous times throughout our life but did you ever stop to wonder if it’s true? Taken literally, breakfast means “break the fast” because it follows the longest...