Category: Nutrition

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Is It Just Picky Eating? Understanding ARFID

What Exactly is  Avoidant / Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

By Jestine Argueza, RDN, LDN

Maybe you’ve always known your child was a “picky eater”. But now the list of foods he will eat without a struggle will fit on a small post-it note. His “picky eating” is taking a toll and interfering with family meals, not to mention your concerns about his nutritional needs.

Turns out, it really is a thing and there’s a name for it.  Avoidant / Restrictive Food Intake Disorder or ARFID, is an eating disorder diagnosis, newly and aptly named in 2013.  However, it’s quite different from other forms of eating disorders.

So, what IS it?

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Blog, Body Image, Nutrition

Navigating Breastfeeding and Eating Disorders: Support for Expectant & New Moms

Does breastfeeding generally help or impede recovery for people with eating disorders? The degree to which it helps or impedes recovery is dependent on many factors, including their use of symptoms, weight stability, and overall emotional health, both pre-pregnancy and postpartum. One study found that the severity of eating disordered symptoms postpartum was worse than pre-pregnancy for 57% of bulimic patients (Morgan, Lacey, & Segwick, 1999). Eating disordered behaviors tend to spike during times of …

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Hurricane Prep: Nutrition Tips

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Hurricane. Season.  Those two words are enough to incite dread in any Floridian.  The days leading up to a storm are frantically filled with preparations.  When the storms hit, we are sequestered to our homes.  Afterwards, we hope to be one of the lucky few to have electricity.  Realistically, we probably won’t have power.  This adds another level of complication when it comes to preparing meals for yourself and your family. Since it can be …

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What is Disordered Eating?

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Given the constant emphasis our society places on being thin, it isn’t surprising that many people believe dieting is both a normal and necessary part of life. However, constant attention to weight, calories, fat, and body size can quickly turn into a destructive cycle of body dissatisfaction. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) states that weighing oneself, skipping meals, counting calories, or over exercising may not necessarily mean that you have a diagnosable eating disorder. …

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Transgender and Eating Disorders

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Transgender and Eating Disorders Christie Caggiani, RDN, LDN, CEDRD It has long been said that eating disorders don’t discriminate: we know they affect people of all ages, education levels, ethnic backgrounds, lifestyles and genders.  We’ve become clear that it affects middle-age women at an alarming rate, is on the rise in underdeveloped countries and impacts males as well as females. Yet little has been researched on the prevalence of eating disorders among the transgender community.  …

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Peaceful Eating: Creating Calm Throughout the Holidays

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We have arrived at holiday season. Here we are. Breathe. This time of year is fraught with crazy busy schedules, high expectations, traditions, emotions, exhaustion….and food is often central to all of it. But does food need to add more confusion, or can it actually help us create some peace, balance and sanity during this festive time? It is my belief and experience as a nutrition therapist that we often interact with and respond to …

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Students Receive Tips on Fueling Their Creative Selves

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Students in grades 3-12 gathered in West Palm Beach on Saturday, October 24, participating in the year-round enrichment programs offered through the Kravis Center.   Underwritten by the Lawrence J. and Florence A. De George Charitable Trust, the De George Academy for Performing Arts provides instruction and coaching to economically disadvantaged youth interested in the performing arts.  Through these ongoing programs, students learn necessary tools and strategies that enrich their creative lives. Christie Caggiani, RDN, …

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Got FATTITUDE?

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In May, Team Oasis had the pleasure of meeting Lindsey Averill, feminist activist, scholar, and filmmaker.  Averill, a PhD candidate at Florida Atlantic University, is currently working on her first documentary.  Fattitude explores representations of overweight people in popular culture, which often include unflattering stereotypes, discrimination, and ridicule. Through interviews with scholars and activists, Fattitude reveals to viewers that every body is worthy of love, pleasure, and acceptance. Ms. Averill shared the Fattitude trailer, as …

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Snacking Sense: Tips for Healthy Kids

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Christie Caggiani, RDN, LDN, CEDRD Since all foods can be part of a balanced eating relationship, I tend to recommend buying full-sized bags of products (chips, crackers, cookies), rather than 100-calorie individual versions.  Not only does this save you some money, it most importantly avoids all of the subtle messages that we give our kids by placing “calories” as part of a food decision.  Have you ever had a 100-calorie bag of anything?  Were you …