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In the Your Latina Nutrition blog, we help you learn to nourish & respect your body without harsh food rules, overcome cycles of bingeing and restriction, and embrace your here-and-now body.
You can do this all while keeping your cultural foods alive & adopting health-promoting behaviors.
Enjoy our research-backed articles written by registered dietitians Isabel and Dalina!
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ALL POSTS | RECIPES | INTUITIVE EATING | JOYFUL MOVEMENT | BODY IMAGE | GENTLE NUTRITION | CULTURA
What Is Fiber and What Is Its Role In Health?
Fiber is helpful for preventing and managing constipation, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Believe it or not, adding fiber doesn’t have to mean ditching your Latine cultural foods for Eurocentric ones! Our Latine dishes contain a variety of high-fiber foods including salsas, plátanos, avocado, and yuca.
Saying 'I feel fat' can be harmful. Here's what to say instead.
Saying “I feel fat” can harm those around you by perpetuating anti-fat bias. It also doesn’t express what your internal experience really is. Learn how it causes harm and what to say instead.
How to Stop Snacking Constantly: Why You're Doing It and 5 Tips to Stop
Feeling out of control with snacks can be stressful, and the likely cause may surprise you. Learn why you can’t stop snacking, plus 5 tips to manage it.
Take the Your Latina Nutrition Food Freedom Quiz!
Food freedom may seem far-fetched, but you can absolutely find food freedom with work and intention. Take our food freedom quiz to learn if you have made peace with food.
What is the Difference Between a Dietitian and a Nutritionist?
Many people use the words “dietitian” and “nutritionist” interchangeably. However, they are not the same thing. Learn the difference between the two and which one you should work with.
What is a HAES Dietitian? Plus, What to Expect Working With One.
A HAES dietitian can help promote your health without centering weight. Learn what a HAES dietitian does and whether you’d benefit from working with a HAES dietitian.
5 Tips to Accept Intuitive Eating Weight Gain
Gaining weight is one very real possibility of intuitive eating. Although this is often met with fear or resistance, you can learn to accept it and view it neutrally. Learn 5 tips to accept intuitive eating weight gain.
Intuitive Eating Before and After: What Results to Expect
Before and after photos are all too common, but they can cause real harm. Learn what before and after transformations to expect with intuitive eating, plus whether weight loss can be achieved with this non-diet approach.
Intuitive Eating for Diabetes: An In-Depth Guide
Despite many people thinking they have to adopt a restrictive mindset around carbs to manage diabetes, intuitive eating is a viable, research-backed option. Learn how you can use intuitive eating to manage your diabetes without harsh food rules.
What to Eat When You Don't Know What to Eat: 60 meal ideas
Not knowing what to eat happens to all of us, yet we need regular meals to feel good and stay energized. Learn 3 ways to navigate this, plus 60 meal ideas.
Intuitive Movement: What It Is and 8 Tips to Embrace It
Exercise has a rigid connotation that can turn people off. Intuitive movement, on the other hand, invites you to connect with your body and let that guide your physical activity. Learn what it is, and 8 tips to practice it.
Hungry But Nothing Sounds Good? Here's why and what to do about it.
Experiencing hunger without an appetite can happen for a variety of reasons, from depression to a nutrient deficiency and more. Learn six reasons why this happens and dietitian-approved tips for what to eat when it does.
Body Checking: What It Is and How to Stop
Looking in the mirror to see how your outfit looks, weighing yourself every few months, or checking your teeth for lettuce are all normal behaviors. We all check our bodies to some extent! However, body checking can wreak havoc on your mental health when it becomes obsessive or compulsive. Learn what body checking is, why it’s harmful, and how to stop.
Why Do I Feel Guilty After Eating?
Feeling guilty after eating is unfortunately pretty common, and it’s a sign of an unhealthy relationship with food.
But you don’t have to stay stuck feeling guilty after eating forever. Learn what food guilt is, what causes it, and how to stop feeling guilty after eating.
BMI is BS. Here's Why.
From health insurance to doctor’s visits, BMI is widely used in our medical system. It’s where the terms “overweight” and “obese” come from, and it’s often used to indicate someone’s health status. Learn about its problematic roots and the AMA’s latest stance on BMI.
The 5 Best Books About Emotional Eating
These days, emotional eating is all over the media. Diet culture has portrayed it as something shameful and to avoid when in reality, we eat for many reasons, one reason being our emotions! Learn whether emotional eating is something to be concerned about, and the 5 best books about emotional eating.
What is Gentle Nutrition? Plus 3 Tips to Get Started
If you’re familiar with intuitive eating, then you know that honoring your health with gentle nutrition is the final principle. Here at Your Latina Nutrition we like to incorporate positive nutrition. That means rather than diet culture’s restrictive rules about what you should or shouldn’t eat, we focus on how you can add nutrition to promote your health.
Learn what gentle nutrition is, who could benefit from it, and three tips to get started.
Having a Bad Body Image Day? Here's 10 Tips
Having a bad body image day is normal and doesn’t mean your relationship with your body is doomed. Whether you’re in eating disorder or disordered eating recovery, dealing with decades of body dissatisfaction, or simply a human in this world where it can be so hard to love your body, you are not alone.
Learn 10 tips to care for yourself on bad body image days.
Learn to Respect Your Body With These 10 Tips
Body respect takes work, but it can help you build a better relationship with your body. We share 10 dietitian-approved tips to build respect for your body.
An Alternative to Dieting For When You're Done Counting Every Calorie
Fad diets have been popular for decades if not centuries. But the reality is, they don’t work and can actively harm your health. Learn an alternative to diets that can help you feel better in your body.