So many websites, so many choices, what to believe?
Nutrition is a relatively new science. As a result insight changes, and things might both become more clear and confusing at the same time.
How many eggs should I eat in a week? Does intermitted fasting help you lose weight? Does the keto diet really work? What exercise should I do, and how often?
During my years as a lifestyle coach and before that as a nutrition and dietetics student I have learned to hold on to the following….
If it sounds too good, it probably is….
websites that end with .org or .gov or .edu have less to gain from you visiting their page in comparison with someone who wants to sell something…
Below are a few resources that I like to refer back to…
Healthy Eating Plate | The Nutrition Source | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MyPlate | U.S. Department of Agriculture
EWG’s 2021 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce | Dirty Dozen
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (pcrm.org)
Fitness & Healthy Lifestyle Blog | ACE (acefitness.org)
And some of my favorite podcasts:
Food, We Need To Talk (wbur.org)
Some books that keep me on my toes:
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonigal
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Range by David Epstein
There There by Tommy Orange
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch