Nutrient Basics
This nutrient is essential for maintaining healthy skin, vision, and immune function. It is found in carrots, sweet potatoes, and leafy greens.
What is vitamin A
This principle encourages listening to your body's hunger signals and eating when you are physically hungry.
What is honor your hunger
Myth or Fact: Skipping meals is an effective way to lose weight.
What is a myth? (Skipping meals can lead to overeating later and disrupt metabolism.)
This HAES principle encourages respecting your body’s natural size and not forcing it to conform to societal standards.
What is body respect?
This strategy includes planning meals and snacks to ensure you have a variety of foods throughout the week.
What is meal planning
This mineral helps regulate blood pressure, supports muscle function, and is found in bananas, spinach, and avocado.
What is potassium
This principle involves letting go of the idea that certain foods are off-limits or "bad"
What is reject the diet mentality
Myth or Fact: Eating fats helps our body absorb necessary vitamins and minerals.
What is a fact (fat soluble vitamins; ADEK)
This approach encourages seeing your body as a valuable part of who you are, rather than focusing on appearance alone.
What is body appreciation?
This practice involves being aware of and appreciating the textures, flavors, and sensations of food.
What is mindful eating
This nutrient helps build and repair tissues, supports immune function, and is found in meats, beans, and nuts.
What is protein
You will find that eating when you are moderately hungry, rather than ravenous or not hungry at all, will ensure more __________
What is satisfaction
Myth or Fact: Choosing foods that are gluten-free will help you eat healthier.
What is a myth: Gluten-free foods are not healthier if you don’t have celiac disease or are not sensitive to gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye grains. If you don’t have these health problems but avoid gluten anyway, you may not get the vitamins, fiber, and minerals you need.
Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.
What is life enhancing movement
This type of movement is enjoyable and focuses on feeling good rather than meeting specific fitness goals.
What is joyful movement
This vitamin supports bone health, helps with calcium absorption, and is found in fortified dairy products and sunlight.
What is vitamin D
This principle involves eating food without judgment and embracing all types of food.
What is make peace with food
Myth or Fact: You need to detoxify your body with special diets or cleanses.
What is a myth? (The body has its own systems for detoxification; a balanced diet supports overall health.)
Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities.
What is respectful care
A belief system that values thinness over health and well-being, and judges people by their appearance and food choices
This mineral is important for nerve function, muscle contraction, and is found in dairy products, leafy greens, and nuts.
What is magnesium
This principle encourages shifting your focus to how it feels to move your body, rather than the calorie burning effect of exercise.
What is exercise; feel the difference
Myth or Fact: Your healthiest weight will always stay the same.
Myth: Diet culture has fed us the idea that our body should remain the same throughout all seasons of life. This is not the case! Our bodies will shift and look and feel different.
Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional and other needs.
What is health enhancement
When you are not hungry in the moment, but you choose to eat to avoid anticipated physical hunger that you may not be able to satisfy at a later time.
What is practical hunger