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Nutrition 101

Simple, weight-neutral nutrition insights to support digestion, women's health, ADHD, and your relationship with food. 

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Carbohydrates Explained: Why Your Body Needs Them

Depending on who you follow online, you may have heard that carbs like bread, fruit, rice or...

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Hot Flashes and Nutrition: What Might Help?

You're sitting at your desk and suddenly you're sweating. Or you wake up in the middle of the night...

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When Is Bloating Normal—and When Is It Not?

You eat dinner and your stomach feels fuller than it did that morning. Your jeans feel tighter by...

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Why Eating Can Feel Like a Chore With ADHD

You know you need to eat. There’s food in the kitchen. You might even be hungry. But deciding what...

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Social Media and Body Image: How to Protect Your Mental Health Online

You open social media to check one thing. Twenty minutes later, you've seen someone's morning...

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Best Plant-Based Protein Sources: Beans, Lentils, Tofu & More

Want to eat more plant-based protein but aren't sure where to start? You don't have to become vegan...

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Does Cortisol Cause Weight Gain? What Stress, Cortisol, and Metabolism Really Have to Do With It

If you've searched “does cortisol cause weight gain?” you have probably come across a long list of...

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Travel Constipation: Why Travel and Routine Changes Affect Digestion

Have you ever gone on vacation and realized a few days later that your digestive system apparently...

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ADHD Grocery Shopping: Executive Function Systems That Make Food Planning Easier

You open the fridge and realize there is nothing to make for dinner.

Maybe you went grocery...

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How to Get Back Into a Routine After Summer—Without Starting a Diet

Summer can change the way we eat.

Vacations, travel, later nights, kids being home, social events,...

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Is Breakfast Necessary? What Research Says About Morning Meals

For decades, many of us have heard the same message: breakfast is the most important meal of the...

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Magnesium and Women's Health: What We Know (and What We Don't)

Walk through any pharmacy or spend five minutes on social media, and you'll probably see magnesium...

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