I hear all the time about the massive pressure parents feel to feed their kids healthy. It’s relentless. The shame is, by only focusing on ‘health and nutrition’ when it comes to food, it’s brutally easy for your child to become distanced from his or her natural food preferences. And when a child becomes distanced […]

If you’re anything like me, you’ll have seen many an expert encouraging us to sit down to a family meal on a regular basis. It’s good, we’re told, in all sorts of ways. One particular report, for example, in the journal Pediatrics recently pointed out that routine family meals can even result in adolescents eating more fruits and […]

[fusion_text] Every day, smart folks who are killing diet-culture with kindness shoot for unlikely outcomes. We send out our columns, pitch our books, ask for a change, put up well documented reserach… There are two ways we can keep going: ONE: Realize that the odds are against you, and keep going anyway. This means keeping […]

[fusion_text]Well, that’s over. Fat-phobia is now a thing of the past. And we’ll only get more sophisticated and more compassionate. We can see the harm better than ever. Which means that anything that’s ever been written about thin being the holy-grail of health now looks antiquated and sad. Which in turn means that all the privilege of being thin […]

The difference between healthy eating and unhealthy eating has nothing to do with food. It has to do with context. Most people put the onus on what you eat. I say it’s how you eat. Healthy eating is as simple and as hard as that. What healthy eaters do Healthy eaters eat what they like. And they stop when they […]

  1. You’re all for body positivity, as long as it doesn’t make you fat 2. You’re waiting for your diet to end, and then you’ll be body positive 3. You think it’s okay for her to be body positive, she’s thinner than you 4. You think emotional eating is ‘bad’ 5. You think your […]

A few weeks ago I was hiking with a friend. It was a beautiful day, we were climbing a steep track to seek a magical vista. It’s the kind of afternoon I live for. Along the way, we stopped for a drink. At which point, she offered me a piece of chocolate. Now, don’t get […]

We wouldn’t care about emotional eating (do we really care about the odd emotional netflix binge or occasional emotional purchase?) We wouldn’t care if people saw us eat in our car. We’d enjoy it, dust ourselves off and move on.

No one has ever changed the world alone. Of course, smart, strong, passion filled folk have worked their butts off to cause change. But change happened not because of the thing they invented or created, or believed, but because others followed. It was the others, really, who changed the world. They took up the mantle. […]