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The Appetite Episode 87: BMI: Answering Your Questions About the Body Mass Index (Part 2) What should you do if a medical provider is offering a treatment recommendation based on your BMI? In the second of a two-part series, Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church RDN, CEDRD-S, CD is answering Read more
The Appetite Episode 86: BMI: How One Unscientific Calculation Became Our Main Measurement for Health (Part 1) Can you actually measure health? BMI— or Body Mass Index—has become a widely embraced measurement of health, but is actually based on an entirely unscientific and racist 19th century research project. In this Read more
The Appetite 85: Body Image: Reflections on Infertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Body Image can be a struggle at any time, but what about when you’ve had a baby? For the birthing person, one’s relationship to food and body can be vastly impacted by the perinatal experience. In a roundtable conversation, Read more
The Appetite Episode 84: Pregnancy and Postpartum: Support in Becoming a Good Enough Parent What assumptions do you think are made about pregnancy and the postpartum experience? Doula Davinah Simmons and postpartum-focused therapist Julie Davidson, LMHC join Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore the ways in which our society Read more
Metabolism: How a Diet Can Harm the Body Is there such thing as a metabolism diet? Can we truly control our bodies in order to change the way we look? As talk of New Year’s “lifestyle changes,” diets, and new exercise regimens fill our feeds, we’re here to talk about Read more
The Appetite Episode 82: Good Coaching Matters: A Conversation with University of Washington’s Center for Leadership in Athletics What makes a good coach? With no agreed upon definition of a “qualified coach,” this is a question often ignored! Julie McCleery, PhD, of the Center for Leadership in Athletics at the Read more
The Appetite 81: Rethinking Resolutions: Self-Inquiry as Self-Improvement Are you sick of making New Year’s resolutions you don’t keep? Instead of goal setting, try commuting to self-exploration! As an alternative to resolutions, Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS leads The Appetitecrew in the journaling process of “self-inquiry,” a Radically Open DBT concept in Read more
The Appetite Episode 80: How to Eat During the Holiday Season: Why There’s No Right or Wrong Way How do the holiday festivities impact your diet? For many—especially those already struggling with a disordered relationship to food and body—the holiday season can be chock-full of challenges. From holiday drinks Read more
The Appetite #79: Shifting Toxic Sports Culture: Reflections on Runner Mary Cain’s Story Does sport culture need to change? We say, absolutely—and especially around weight! Mary Cain was the fastest high school distance runner in the world until she joined the best distance running program in the country, the Nike Read more
The Appetite Episode #78: What is Body Wisdom? The Opal Staff Answers What does food and body wisdom look like? With the concept front and center in Opal’s name, we decided to poll the staff (dietitians, therapists, and beyond!) to hear what body wisdom means to them. From pursuing Read more