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Editing Note: This post and the previous post originally were one long article.
In my previous post I explained why nutrition information has a role in the non-diet approach – not as a rule, but as information. But with all the contradictory nutrition advice out there, is there really such a thing as “good nutrition”? There [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, October 9th, 2009 Categories: Nutrition (what you eat), Tags: non-diet approach
Editing Note: This post and the next post originally were one long article.
For people who have sworn off weight-loss diets, principles of nutrition can seem like just another set of eating rules to rebel against. The idea behind the non-diet approach is that you can trust your inborn body wisdom to tell you when and [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, September 15th, 2009 Categories: Nutrition (what you eat), Social Norms & Bias, Tags: fat prejudice, food cravings
I just finished reading Gary Taubes’ book, Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s superbly researched and contains crucially important information, but it’s a hard read – long, dense, meandering, and repetitive. I fear that many people won’t get all the way through it. And while the extensive detail on studies is great, the forest gets a [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, June 23rd, 2009 Categories: Nutrition (what you eat), Tags: compulsive overeating, food cravings
In my previous post, I talked about how eating processed food can make people fat. Processed foods are fabricated in labs, specifically and deliberately to use our body wisdom against us. The weapons they use are fat, sugar, and salt, which trick us into overeating. From the chapter on Stage 4 in Normal Eating® for [...]
What makes people fat are the two main factors that interfere with body wisdom:
Emotional Eating and Compulsive Overeating – Eating when you’re not hungry, to meet emotional needs and cravings.
Processed Food – Processed foods are engineered to pervert body wisdom so people eat more.
Body wisdom is an inborn attraction to the foods that our body [...]
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