Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN, is an American “anti-diet” dietician, journalist, intuitive eating coach, and host of the podcast Food Psych.
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In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness.
I would love to go vegetarian, but every time I try cutting meat from my diet, I end up really, really, REALLY hungry. What am I doing wrong?
In the winter of 2003, right after I graduated from college, I was struggling with a series of symptoms that seem increasingly common these days: fatigue, brain fog, digestive troubles, abnormal liver tests, and a period that had been missing for about a year.
Once I stopped fighting my hunger cues and started seeing sweets as everyday options, my body was able to tell me when it had enough and I was able to listen.
Your liver and kidneys aren’t like filters in the sink that get clogged up with gunk.
The 7 ideas that follow are . . . culled from the best available science to date in this ever-changing landscape.
A dietitian offers children and their parents a way to avoid the pitfalls of a weight-centric paradigm.
Instead of demonizing all processed foods, we’d be much better off learning how to spot a decent processed food.
Deliberate weight-control measures around a vacation are not only unnecessary, they can actually be detrimental to your health and well-being.
Carbs are extremely important to the body, as they’re the exclusive fuel source for the brain and nervous system, and the preferred form of energy for all other physiological functions.
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