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Gentle Nutrition or Diet Mentality: What is your Fruit and Vegetable Perception?
I am pleased to announce that this is another guest blog post by my lovely and talented intern: Lauren Tinkey is about to graduate from...
Caroline Young
Oct 3, 2019


Break free from black and white thinking to eat and live in color
I am so excited to announce that this is a guest blog post by my lovely and talented intern: Lauren Tinkey is about to graduate from...
Caroline Young
Sep 26, 2019


Why It’s Healthy to Eat “Unhealthy” Foods Often
First, I have to say that the quotation marks around “Unhealthy” in the title of this post are not to be taken lightly. We live in a...
Caroline Young
Jul 31, 2019


Do We Have to Love Our Bodies?
Want the short answer to the question I ask in the title of this blog post? If so, it’s: No. But if you had asked me this at the onset of...
Caroline Young
Jun 20, 2019


Yoga & Mindfulness: Keys to Healthier Food & Body Relationships
Ever since I knew I was going to become a registered dietitian (RD), I dreamt of merging my yoga background with my nutrition expertise –...
Caroline Young
May 29, 2019


Why We Should Eat Bread (and other grains)
Hands-down, the number one macronutrient (carbs, fats, protein) that I hear people say they’re avoiding are carbohydrates. From my...
Caroline Young
Apr 24, 2019


Why our relationships to food affect our whole lives (plus free tool)
Does your relationship to food get in the way of you living your best life? If your answer is yes, please know it is really common in our...
Caroline Young
Mar 26, 2019


On Joyful Movement: Let’s Take Exercise Back!
Ah, January. There’s this classic, fast and furious renewal of fitness memberships and resolving to move more. The diet & fitness...
Caroline Young
Jan 30, 2019


Free Self-Care Tools for the Holiday Season
This is a time of year when I feel like it is really easy to disconnect from our bodies. Whether it’s trying to tie up lose ends at work,...
Caroline Young
Nov 26, 2018


4 Benefits of Eating Well That Have Nothing to do with Your Weight
Take a moment to ask yourself: What motivates me to eat well? If your key motivators behind eating a healthy diet are weight control...
Caroline Young
Oct 25, 2018


Top 10 To-Do’s in Montreal
Traveling breathes life into me. It’s just one of those things in life that brings me so much joy, and makes me grow and expand in ways...
Caroline Young
Sep 17, 2018


5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Go on a Diet
Did you know that one in three U.S. consumers are following a specific diet? According to the 2018 International Food Information Council...
Caroline Young
Aug 13, 2018


Here’s Why Calories are the Bomb
Hello there people. This is just a super quick post to celebrate calories. One of the many things that I think our culture gets wrong is...
Caroline Young
Aug 8, 2018


A Poem: Staying Grounded in Life’s Storms
Tree Poem for emotional endurance (Audio version). I write poetry. If you ever read my blog, you wouldn’t know that, because I never...
Caroline Young
Jul 17, 2018


Here’s the Dirt on Clean Eating
The term literally makes me cringe. Search the hashtag “cleaneating” on Instagram and you will find images of super-lean women taking...
Caroline Young
Jun 22, 2018


Why You Don’t Need to Fear Sugar
You’ve heard it all: Sugar is bad. Sugar is toxic. Sugar will destroy your health. Fear-mongering messages around sugar abound. They are...
Caroline Young
May 28, 2018


Podcast Episode: Beyond Yoga Pants (my journey, benefits & tools for you)
Recently, two women and co-workers (who I admire very much) asked me to be a guest on their new podcast “Southern Fried Girlfriends”, to...
Caroline Young
Apr 13, 2018


How to Meal-Plan Without Rigidity
[This post is adapted from an article I wrote for the National Peanut Board (NPB) website.] Do you hear the phrase “meal planning,” and...
Caroline Young
Apr 1, 2018


Why We Have to Stop Equating Body Size with Health
Last night, I saw Fattitude –a documentary about how popular culture fosters fat prejudice. It offers an alternative way of thinking. In...
Caroline Young
Feb 23, 2018


How I shifted from compulsive exercise to joyful movement, plus 10 tips
My relationship to exercise has changed drastically over the past decade of my life, but most significantly in the last 3ish years. It...
Caroline Young
Feb 2, 2018
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