Food Myths
True or false:
You should avoid sodium/salt.
False! Your body needs salt in order to function properly.
This nutrient is your body's main source of fuel.
What are carbohydrates?
This type of therapy focuses on actions to accept distressing thoughts and emotions, and stick to your values despite them.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/ACT?
Keeping yourself nourished based on the cues your body gives you.
What is honoring your hunger?
This term refers to an intense preoccupation with weight and body image, often seen in certain eating disorders.
What is body dysmorphia?
True or false:
Sugar can give you diabetes
False! Diabetes is caused by a number of factors including genetics, but no food can cause it.
This nutrient builds and repairs muscle, and helps to make enzymes and hormones.
What is protein?
This is a key aspect of therapy, aimed at helping individuals rebuild their sense of self-worth beyond body image or appearance.
What is body image work?
Learning to enjoy food and eat what you want.
What is discovering the satisfaction factor?
These are either positive or negative thoughts that people have about different foods, which can affect how they feel toward the food.
What are food judgements?
True or false:
Frozen fruits and vegetables are just as nutritious as fresh ones.
True! There is a myth that fresh fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than frozen.
This nutrient helps your body hydrate by pulling water into your cells.
What are electrolytes?
This is a network of people that someone can rely on and go to when things in their life or recovery get hard.
What is a support system?
Deciding to ignore the rules you have been told about food.
What is challenging the food police?
This term refers to eating more than the body physically needs, often due to emotional or psychological factors, rather than true hunger.
What is emotional eating?
True or false:
Eating fats will make you gain weight
False. Your body needs fats to function
This nutrient helps your body absorb vitamins and is the main component of your cell walls.
What are fats?
This recovery-oriented strategy focuses on mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion to address emotional triggers that lead to disordered eating behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy/DBT?
Deciding not to diet and giving up the hope that restriction will help you.
What is rejecting the diet mentality?
In recovery, this is a key part of developing a positive relationship with food, focusing on nourishing the body rather than restricting or avoiding.
What is intuitive eating?
True or false:
There are no such thing as empty calories.
True! All foods are nourishing and enjoying your food is also important!
This mineral is crucial for teens and helps maintain strong bones.
What is calcium?
This therapy focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/CBT?
Accepting your genetics and what you look like, rejecting harsh criticism of yourself.
What is respecting your body?
This neurotransmitter helps regulate mood and sleep, and is influenced by food intake.
What is serotonin?