Educational Resources
The dietetics profession is multidimensional and dynamic.
It is about nutrition, but it is also connected with a wide range of topics from social issues to personal wellbeing.Â
Explore more about dietetics!
Diet Culture
You may not have heard of the term "diet culture", but it is probably everywhere in your life.
Diet culture
- Reveres thinness and equates it to health, success, and worthiness.
- Promotes weight loss as a means of self-care and self-discipline.
- Demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others.
Unknowingly swimming in this toxic pool for too long? Check out resources to get you out of there!
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Books:
- Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass
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Podcasts:
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Blogs & Web Resources:
- 'Beauty Sickness', Five TED Talks That Disassemble Our Idealised Perception Of Beauty
Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating is a personal process of honoring health by listening and responding to the direct messages of the body in order to meet your physical and psychological needs.
Learn about this evidenced-based, mind-body health approach, comprised of 10 Principles and created by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995.
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Books:
- A hub of intuitive eating books
- Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life
- Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food
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Blogs:
Health At Every Size (HAES)
The HAES model is an approach to both policy and individual decision-making. It addresses broad forces that support health, such as safe and affordable access. It also helps people find sustainable practices that support individual and community well-being. The HAES approach honors the healing power of social connections, evolves in response to the experiences and needs of a diverse community, and grounds itself in a social justice framework.
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Books
- Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
- A list of books with the HAES approach
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Web Resources
Self-Compassion
Let's practice self-care and body acceptance for the wellbeing of ourselves and of others around us.
Be brave, be strong, and be empowered!
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Books:
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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Podcasts:
- Fearless Rebelle Radio
Cultural Diversity
Canada is such a multicultural country and because dietetics is all about client-centred care, it is crucial for dietitians to be culturally sensitive and give culturally appropriate nutrition care. Learn the importance of cultural diversity and the food practices of Indigenous people!
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Books & Online Courses
- Xpey' Wellness Facebook Page
- Indigenous Canada Online course by the University of Alberta
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Podcasts
- Cultural Diversity in Dietetics by Drunk Dietitians Podcast
- Diversifying Dietetics with NYU Dietetic Director by Drunk Dietitians Podcast
- Racism Explains the Origins of Fat Phobia and Diet Culture by Body Kindness Podcast
- Diversity in Dietetics – Why cultural competency isn’t enough to improve health care by Body Kindness Podcast
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Blog Posts
- Dietetic Diversity: From Mentorship to Practice by Dietitians of Canada
- Doubling Down on Diversity: The Journey to a More Diverse Field