HealthNotDiets Digest, Issue 18, 2018
April 29 - May 5, 2018
To celebrate 'International No Diet Day' month (May), Health Not Diets online courses are on special!
Unpacking Weight Science $20 off (RRP $59AUD)
Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/SKZK
Non-Diet Approach for Dietitians $45 off (RRP $195AUD)
Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/VRFQ
Enter 'NODIET' at checkout to apply discount
Australians can also get $5 off my books:
The Non-Diet Approach Guidebook for Dietitians for $40
The Non-Diet Approach Guidebook for Psychologists & Counsellors for $45 (including postage)
Order books via email: fiona@healthnotdiets.com
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Articles and Blogs
Why I don't talk about weight loss
by TaLynn Kel
“I believed that if I built my life around fitness, then I would be successful. Fit at any cost. Then I had a pulmonary embolism.”
http://talynnkel.com/blog/2018/3/26/why-i-dont-talk-about-weight-loss
Why are we addicted to weighing ourselves?
by Kasey Edwards
“Rather than building us up, each weigh-in session instead undermines the trust we have in our bodies. After all, if we have to constantly defer to the great Scale God in the bathroom, then how much control do we really have?”
I used to be a holistic nutritionist
by Denby Royal
“my world crumbled like a dry piece of raw gluten-free paleo cake.... I had fallen for the false language of pseudoscience where a morsel of real medicine is blended with enough nonsense and conviction to fool so many people.”
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/i-used-to-be-a-holistic-nutritionist/
The Clinical Trial Is Open. The Elderly Need Not Apply.
by Paula Span
“The problem...is that when researchers leave older people out, ‘you end up with a very homogeneous group that is not representative of your real-world patients.’”
Let’s also have some studies done to help larger peeps that aren’t aiming for weight loss!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/health/elderly-clinical-trials.html