Nutrition
without
sensationalism
Sensationalism:
the use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy, in order to provoke public interest or excitement
I go by Tina (she/they). For work, I’m a Registered Dietitian and trained chef.
My nutrition practice and perspectives are trauma-informed, weight inclusive, gender affirming, culturally humble, realistic, and delicious.
I specialize in digestion/digestive diseases, gender-affirming care, disordered eating, ADHD, and blood sugar management, but I work with folks on a wide variety of health conditions and general nutrition and food support.
In addition to helping people manage diseases and impactful symptoms, I also spend a significant amount of time encouraging clients’ use of critical thinking to help filter out the harm that comes from sensationalized nutrition information.
If you’re feeling confused by all the the supplements, superfoods, powders, products, the conflicting messaging, and slick marketing behind it all, you’re not alone.
Let’s spend some time together to simplify, streamline, and create at least a little more calm around food and the unavoidable challenges and joys that come with being in a body.
Working as a Registered Dietitian (RD), I quickly realized how harmful it is to pretend that nutrition work is simple.
It’s not about just telling people what to eat. Anyone can do that.
That’s the approach to nutrition can be a fast track to decades of damage.
As an outpatient RD, I’ve collaborated with clients of a variety of backgrounds, foregrounds, genders, and cultures, offering counseling and education to help CalmTFDown from past nutrition damages, connect/reconnect with their bodies, diversify their diets, and create their version of health based on what’s possible, not what other people are selling or telling.
Now, I’m putting my most discussed appointment topics into classes and blog posts that aren’t afraid to hold back, including topics like:
How to spot nutrition sensationalism (online, in social media, in medical appointments, from friends/family, etc.)
The benefits of working with a trained and certified nutrition professional (RD, CNS, NBHWC, etc.) and how to find a good fit
How nutrition can be about more than blaming, shaming, and changing food and body
Why improving our relationships to food and body is more important than following diets or restricting foods
What the medical system has gotten wrong with nutrition and directions we’re moving toward to make it better
It ain’t all salads & Smoothies, folks
Being in a body is complicated.
We’re all born in one, but we don’t get an owner’s manual. We barely get any education on it.
Instead, we get the Internet providing us with a dumpster fire of unregulated nutrition advice from anyone who feels like saying or selling it.
This leads to a confusing time when we want to make some changes to our patterns or start experiencing undesirable symptoms.
The current perception of nutrition is deeply infused with problematic food-shaming, body-shaming, culture-shaming..seeing a theme?
That isn’t nutrition, it isn’t health. It is is the promotion of suffering for the sake of sales.
Nutrition can be more than gimmicky, grandiose claims, questionable products, and painfully unpleasant diets.
Here, you’ll find essays and services from a Culinary Registered Dietitian that promote curiosity around who’s telling us to do what with nutrition, revel in a love of flavorful food, and punch up from time to time.
Thanks for comin’ by!
