10 Nutrition (and Lifestyle) Tips to Improve Mental Health for May (and Beyond)
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05 May, 2025
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What is Emotional Eating? (And How to Stop It)
What is emotional eating? Identify emotional eating behaviors and receive outpatient treatment and nutrition therapy from a St. Louis area dietitian t...
28 January, 2025
What is Outpatient Treatment for Eating Disorders? St Louis Area Nutrition Therapy
Outpatient treatment for anorexia, bulimia, BED, and disordered eating with St. Louis area dietitians can help you recover from your eating disorder....
30 December, 2024
Improve Your Diet with Tips from a Dietitian Nutritionist in the St. Louis Area
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) If you’re in the St. Louis area, then you know that you’re surrounded by unique food traditions and local ...
26 December, 2024
Outpatient Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) A diabetes diagnosis can be scary and overwhelming. Managing this chronic health condition doesn’t have to b...
26 December, 2024
Why Your 2024 New Year’s Resolution Didn’t Last: St. Louis Area Dietitian Tips on Setting Realistic Nutrition Goals
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) Ahhh, New Year’s resolutions. We all start the year with big dreams of eating cleaner, losing those extra po...
26 December, 2024
Why Your 2024 New Year’s Resolution Didn’t Last: St. Louis Area Dietitian Tips on Setting Realistic Nutrition Goals
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) Ahhh, New Year’s resolutions. We all start the year with big dreams of eating cleaner, losing those extra po...
26 December, 2024
Improve Your Mental Health with Diet Tips from a St. Louis Area Dietitian: Understand the Gut-Brain Axis
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) Did you know your gut could be secretly influencing your mood, stress levels, and even your overall mental hea...
24 December, 2024
How Can a Nutritionist Help a Child?
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) The holidays are a time for family, fun, and plenty of tasty food. But all of those extra treats and festive m...
04 December, 2024
Ways to Manage an Eating Disorder During the Holidays
Author: Emily Hagerman (Dietetic Intern) The holiday season can be a time of joy and celebration, but for those struggling with eating disorders, it c...
27 November, 2024
4 Simple Tips to Boost Your Digestive Health This Holiday Season
Author: Ryleigh Scott (Dietetic Intern) The holidays are here and, let’s be honest, who can resist an extra helping of mashed potatoes or that secon...
26 November, 2024
What are the Food Allergy Symptoms in Children
Food Allergies Calling all parents and caregivers! This blog is for you. If you’ve ever found yourself anxiously reading food labels or keeping a cl...
18 October, 2024
Can Dietitians Help with Digestive Issues in Children?
GI Disorders Mealtime meltdowns and tummy troubles – I’m sure we’ve all been there as parents. GI disorders in children can be a real challenge,...
18 October, 2024
How to Tell the Difference Between Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
Celiac Disease If you’ve ever felt bloated after a slice of bread or had digestive problems after a big pasta meal, you’ve probably wondered if it...
18 October, 2024
Sweet Solutions: A Diabetes-Friendly Halloween
Author: Ryleigh Scott (BNC Dietetic Intern) Halloween – the candy holiday. It can be tricky navigating the sugar season for kids with diabetes, but ...
27 September, 2024
Celiac Disease Management Tips During Halloween
Halloween is a holiday filled with candy, costumes, and spooky fun, but for those living with celiac disease, it can also be a season of challenges. B...
27 September, 2024
3 Nutritious and Easy Kid Lunch Ideas
Creating nutritious lunches for kids can be a daily challenge for many parents and caregivers. In case you missed it, check out our post titled “...
10 September, 2024
The Art of Packing Kid Lunches – Tips from Pediatric Dietitians (and Busy Moms)
In the age of perfectly curated Instagram feeds and trending lunchboxes, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when it comes to packing your child’s lunch...
03 September, 2024
Eating Disorder Treatment Tips: 4 Food Swaps for Eating Disorder Recovery
As eating disorder dietitians in the St. Louis area, we provide online and in-person medical nutrition therapy. Our goal is to help you nourish yourse...
31 July, 2024
4 Nutrition Tips for Returning to School as a Student Athlete
As the back-to-school season approaches, it’s not just about pencils, notebooks, and new uniforms. For many kids, it also means gearing up for a...
31 July, 2024
Eating Disorder Treatment Tips: How to Navigate and Cope with Calories on the Menu
As St. Louis area dietitian nutritionists who specialize in the treatment of eating disorders, we want to provide our readers with practical tips on h...
28 June, 2024
What Does It Mean to be a HAES® Provider?
Being a Health at Every Size® (HAES) provider means focusing on the whole person, not just their weight. The dietitians in our St. Louis area practic...
28 June, 2024
Eating Disorders in the LGBTQ+ Community
It’s important to remember that anyone can experience an eating disorder. However, some populations are known to have higher risks of developing...
11 June, 2024
Eating Disorders can Affect Anyone – Even Men
The month of June focuses on many important issues, and one of them is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month! Sadly, there’s a common belief...
11 June, 2024
Festive Recipe for Memorial Day Weekend
This Memorial Day weekend, why not add a touch of creativity to your celebrations with a festive Patriotic Pizza? This colorful and delicious dish com...
24 May, 2024
Common Signs of ARFID
ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) is a relatively new diagnosis in the field of eating disorders that has been getting a lot of attent...
16 April, 2024
5 Ways to Navigate Diet Obsessed People in Your Life
It can be difficult to be around people who are heavily focused on diet culture, especially when you’ve learned to overcome it. As St. Louis are...
16 April, 2024
Try this Delicious Monster Cookie Recipe
We want to share a yummy dessert recipe with you all. It’s loaded with oats, peanut butter, and the perfect mix of chocolate chips and festive M&...
16 February, 2024
Eating Disorder Recovery Talk with Mia!
“It turns out that a willingness to take a chance on yourself, to keep an open mind, and to keep fighting, goes a long way. I have no doubt in m...
02 February, 2024
Breaking Free from Calorie Counting: A Journey to Intuitive Eating
Written by: Rylie Elder (Dietetic Intern) Written by: Rylie Elder (Dietetic Intern) In a world that’s obsessed with counting calories, it’s cr...
01 February, 2024
How to Create a Satiating Snack
Ever experienced that mid-afternoon lull when dinner is still a distance away so you start looking for a tasty snack that keeps your energy levels goi...
01 February, 2024
Get Off the Restrictive Pendulum
The Restriction Pendulum is your body’s natural reaction to deprivation. When the pendulum swings over to the side of restriction—which diet cultu...
05 December, 2023
Want Extra Support – Get a Recovery Coach!
We’re thrilled to introduce our newest service at Branz Nutrition Counseling – Recovery Coaching! In this post, we’ll delve into the...
29 November, 2023
Michelle Wilson – Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and ARFID Training
We’re excited to share about how Michelle Wilson (they/she), one of our wonderful dietitians, has recently achieved certifications in ARFID and ...
07 November, 2023
Helping Children with Intuitive Eating Principles – Holiday Edition
The Magic of Intuitive Eating for Kids: With the holidays approaching, it often brings around food… and a lot of it! As parents, how can we help...
07 November, 2023
Don’t Fret over the Candy Bowl: 6 Tips to Make This Holiday Recovery Focused
Halloween is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for costumes, pumpkins, and, of course, candy. While it’s easy to get caught...
16 October, 2023
The Fear of Weight Gain with Intuitive Eating (IE)
Have these reasons about Intuitive Eating (IE) been scary for you? The fear of weight gain is a common barrier when starting IE and it makes sense. Yo...
10 October, 2023
7 Tips for ED Recovery in College
College brings about numerous changes and challenges that can have an impact on various aspects of our lives, including our eating habits. These chang...
21 July, 2023
How to Talk about Food with your Kids | Branz Nutrition Counseling with St. Louis News (KSDK)
Summer time is here which often means kids are back home and in a different environment from school. Your kids may be frequently bringing up the topic...
27 June, 2023
7 Differences in Eating Disorders vs. Disordered Eating | Branz Nutrition Counseling
Eating disorders and disordered eating are actually different from one another. In overview, an eating disorder is a clinical diagnosis, whereas disor...
14 February, 2023
How Undereating Causes Overeating | Branz Nutrition Counseling
Those who struggle with disordered eating may have had or currently have thoughts that sound like, “If I eat less/ restrict my food, then I will los...
13 January, 2023
What is ‘Set Point Theory’? An Eating Disorder Dietitian Explains
Do we really have as much control as we think we do over our weight? Living in a diet-culture-based society that often praises thin bodies and condemn...
29 December, 2022
My Child Has an Eating Disorder, What Do I Need to Know? From an Eating Disorder Dietitian
Being a parent is complex; there is no perfect manual for handling challenging situations in your child’s life. As eating disorder dietitians, w...
20 December, 2022
10 Common Lies Your Eating Disorder May Tell You- Branz Nutrition Counseling
Some days, that voice in our head feels really loud. The voice that tells us to eat less, that we don’t deserve food, or shaming us for our bodies. ...
30 November, 2022
Navigating Eating Disorder Recovery During the Holidays- Tips from Registered Dietitian’s
As Eating Disorder Dietitians, we know that the holiday season can be challenging for those amid recovery. Not only can it be a time for heightened st...
09 November, 2022
Binge Eating Halloween Candy? Here’s some Advice from an Eating Disorder Dietitian
Before you go down the path of beating yourself up for binge eating Halloween Candy and blaming yourself for lack of willpower and control, I want you...
02 November, 2022
Should I Be Limiting my Kids’ Halloween Candy? Advice from a Registered Dietitian
It’s Halloween and your kids have returned with bags FULL of candy! It should be a fun experience will memories of dressing up in costumes and watch...
27 October, 2022
From Chronic Dieter to Becoming an Intuitive Eater-Branz Nutrition Counseling
Below is a letter from one of our patients about their journey from chronic dieter to becoming an Intuitive Eater. For confidentiality- this post will...
19 September, 2022
What do you know about Weight Stigma?
Did you know… BMI was never created to be used as a medical tool? Fad diets do not lead to long-term weight loss? Body neutrality is different f...
16 February, 2022
WE’RE TALKING DITCHING DIETS
WE’RE TALKING DITCHING DIETS How many diets have you been on?How long did it last?Did you end up quitting eventually?Did you feel like you faile...
16 February, 2022
Binge Eating Halloween Candy? Here’s some Advice from an Eating Disorder Dietitian
Before you go down the path of beating yourself up for binge eating Halloween Candy and blaming yourself for lack of willpower and control, I want you...
11 February, 2022
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