“There have always been kids who enjoy sports and outdoor play most, and there have always been kids who prefer reading, writing and playing video games.” —Amee Severson, registered dietitian nutritionist
Raise your hand, fellow Indoor Kitties! I spent my …
“Nobody faults your adorable grandmother for getting Covid, but everybody faults a person at a higher body weight.” —Jeffrey Hunger, PhD, assistant professor of social psychology at Miami University of Ohio
I have to say, I’ve written about health long …
Hello from our isolation, we made a rainbow window this week. Which I’m posting not to make you feel like you aren’t quarantining right if you haven’t done an elaborate art project with your kids. But actually just to say—this …
I talked about this on Instagram recently and it seemed to resonate with a lot of you…
The vast majority of the people writing/studying/advocating about how to feed kids are operating from the premise that 1) kids don’t eat enough …
I’ve been reporting on Mosaic Comprehensive Care in Chapel Hill, NC, for an upcoming story. It is, as far as I can tell, the only primary care medical practice in the country to offer weight-inclusive care. There are no scales …
Since writing The Eating Instinct, I think a lot about what makes someone an “expert.” Doctors are held up as weight and diet experts even though the subjects are covered pretty minimally in med school. Dietitians are taught about …
In my latest for Parents I wrote about how I’ve evolved from a would-be cloth diaperer (never happened!) to a mom who does what she can and then calls it a day. My values haven’t changed — but I’ve realized …
I mean, it would be so much easier if that plan existed. That’s why I spent the first ten years of my career as a women’s magazine/health journalist looking for it. Can confirm, does not exist. And… that’s actually hugely …
This is something I’ve been thinking about since Zibby Owens and I talked about it during my episode of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. Zibby told me she’d done some genetic testing and found out that her …
This is a love letter to the incredible Jessamyn Stanley for putting her new yoga video app The Underbelly Yoga into the world.
Some back story: I’ve practiced yoga off and on for about 15 years. I found it after …
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
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