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Nutritional approaches to disordered eating
Disordered eating can take many forms. It can involve food restriction, bingeing, night time eating, purging and compulsive or emotional eating. It is not uncommon to see a number of these types of eating over the...
3 ways nutritional therapy can support your eating disorder recovery
Healing your relationship with food and body image is critical for eating disorder recovery. Recovery is a life-long commitment that gives you the freedom to live a full and happy life. An eating disorder is deeply...
Self-awareness vs. self-obsession
We are so lucky that we live in a digital age, where many aspects of our lives are made easier with technology. Health and fitness is one such area that has seen incredible technological advances. We can monitor our...
Spotlight on: Intuitive eating
When I tell people I eat what I want, when I want - I tend to get some funny looks. With diet culture rife in our society, the idea of eating whatever we want is an alien concept for many. The story gets even stranger...
Hospital admissions for eating disorders nearly double, NHS reveals
NHS Digital have revealed there were 13,885 admissions for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia between April 2016 and 2017, compared with 7,260 in the year leading up to April 2011. The Telegraph reports that...
What’s behind your New Year’s resolution?
For people with disordered eating, New Year’s can bring with it a lot of challenges. There’s pressure from all angles to ‘transform’ yourself, to lose weight, eat healthier, exercise more, achieve more… be better. This...
Has the 'iifym' craze created a distorted relationship with food for some people?
If you're not familiar with the phrase 'iifym', it stands for 'if it fits your macros', a craze that started being used by people competing in fitness physique competitions who needed to be of a certain weight/size, but...
Eating disorders: An expert explains
Eating Disorders Awareness Week is 27th February to 5th March and this year, the aim is to encourage those suffering to speak up, be brave and seek help as early as possible. What are eating disorders? Eating disorders...
Emotional eating: cravings, control and portion sizes
Understanding why a tub of double chocolate chip ice-cream makes us feel so good when we’re down is something few of us have really considered. We just know that it is the best comfort food along with dairy milk...
Our discussion: “Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets”
This month, BBC 3 released ‘Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets’, a documentary exploring the explosive trend of clean-eating, veganism and specialist diets. While the documentary has had mixed reviews, it sparked discussion...