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If you need to do a particular diet, or weight loss program, more than o...

A common thing I hear in my practice is how “x” was a really good program because I lost 5-10-20kg.

Fat will not make you fat.

For too many years we have been fearful of fat. Up until a couple of years ago I too tried to keep fat to a minimum with the idea that using more f...

Will losing weight really make you feel better?

Listening to a program on suicide and mental health issues, I was reminded how easily we get caught up with various problems and worries that perha...

Please let’s stop going to extremes with nutrition.

Health, wellness or nutrition are not, and do not need to be, black or white or all or nothing entities. In the wise words of renowned dietitian an...

No, potatoes are not bad for you, even deep fried ones!

I am writing this in response to a US study just published that links higher intake of potatoes, cooked in various ways, with raised risk of hypert...

Food addiction or diet mentality?

I am writing this after listening to an interesting show on ABC 774 Melbourne which spoke about food addiction.

Why weight loss may not be the best goal

It is harder to nourish your body well or improve your eating behaviours for the long-term, when your goal is weight loss.

Eating well doesn’t need to be complicated or restrictive or invol...

For the most part; eat because you're hungry, eat food you enjoy and eat food that nourishes your body.

Health is not just a matter of weight loss

No, I am not anti-weight loss and yes, weight loss can be a positive thing.

Since when did we become so scared of food?

Have you noticed the language we use towards food?

Judging people as unhealthy based on fatness, is simply misguided.

If you judge people who are fat to be unhealthy, to eat too much or to be unfit, then your weight bias is adding to our culture's weight stigma and...

Please, please, please, let’s focus on fitness and health, not weight loss.

I am writing this in response to reading about another study just published that shows significant health improvements in obese people with just a ...