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What is Health At Every Size (HAES)?
By: Holly Pelton Holly is a current dietetic intern at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and is currently working towards becoming a Registered Dietitian looking to start her own nutrition counseling business. In her free time she loves being outside hiking, biking,...

The Permission To Eat Podcast is Here!
The Permission To Eat Podcast is now available on all your favorite podcast platforms! The podcast will be real talk about eating disorders, diet culture, adulting without dieting (basically anything that I want to talk about that won’t be triggering), and actionable...

My Top 5 Ways to Delay (or stop!) Purging
By Abby Caudle-Patton Abby is a second-year master's student in Nutrition and Dietetics at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. Abby currently works at a recovery center and enjoys reading, trying new recipes, exploring local trails, and snuggling with her pups. ...

BODY POSITIVITY, AND OTHER IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
By: Lauren MacLeod Lauren is finishing up her dietetic internship at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to become a registered dietitian. She hopes to work in outpatient counseling and has enjoyed working with the eating disorder population. There’s been a lot of buzz around...

BOOK REVIEW: MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING IN NUTRITION AND FITNESS
Clifford D, Curtis L. Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness, 1st Edition. New York, NY: The Guliford Press, 2016 (1). This review was written for graduate nutrition class "Obesity," 2016.Elizabeth Parker, MS, RD About the AuthorsAuthor Dawn Clifford is...

BOOK REVIEW: MINDLESS EATING
This review was written for my college class "Psychology of Eating," 2016.Elizabeth Parker, MS, RD About the authorDr. Brian Wansink, who has been called the “Sherlock Homes of eating behavior,”1 founded the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University in 1997. He was...