{"id":1339,"date":"2008-09-23T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/guest-blog-get-to-the-bottom-of-food-issues\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T22:13:10","slug":"guest-blog-get-to-the-bottom-of-food-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/guest-blog-get-to-the-bottom-of-food-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: Get to the Bottom of Food Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa Spiesman, CHHC, AADP,\u00a0is the Featured Guest Blogger at DietsInReview.com for September. She is the director of Nutrition for Your Life<\/a>, a nutrition program that focuses on health and wellness through whole foods. Melissa develops individual integrative nutrition plans that focus on the total health of her clients. In her private practice, she regularly counsels individuals and groups on a variety of health\/nutrition issues, including: cravings, weight loss and management, healthy food preparation, coping with stress, and having more energy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa received her professional training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition which is affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. She is certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.\"girlawhirl\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa is a featured contributor of girlawhirl.com. Girlawhirl.com<\/a> is an online magazine for busy women. It\u2019s updated every weekday with the latest fashion and beauty news, home decorating, nutrition, fitness advice and more. <\/em><\/p>\n

Our society is obsessed with food.\u00a0 The strongest, most committed relationship we have is our relationship with food.<\/p>\n

There are people who eat to live and people who live to eat, people whose appetites are altered with any change in their emotional or physical temperature.<\/p>\n

It is rare to find a person who does not have some sort of disordered eating; calorie counting, safe food, comfort foods, diet of the day, secrecy or addiction. There is so much conflicting nutritional information that it is difficult to eat without some sort of food neuroses and it seems that everyone finds something, we follow food rules to give up control and to not deal with choices.\u00a0 We have become a society of dysfunctional diners, never ordering from the menu as it appears but rather, \u201cdressing on the side, no sauce, no carbs, plain grilled\u201d. We have comfort foods and we have celebratory foods and we have foods that connect us to the best (and worst) times of our lives.<\/p>\n

We talk about food all the time, for some it defines who they are.\u00a0 We talk about good food, bad food and confess our \u201cfood sins\u201d.<\/p>\n

Some plan vacations around a specific food experience or spend time researching the \u201cbest of\u201d food at their destination.\u00a0 Why is it that some people have to eat all of the food at a buffet because it is there, and there are those that can peruse the buffet and make choices? There are people who spend hours in the supermarket reading nutrition labels and looking for new products and those who do not stray from their lists.<\/p>\n

Food is sustenance; it is nourishment, it is a response to a physical hunger.\u00a0 It is gratifying, fulfilling and fun; it can be interesting, creative and social.\u00a0 Food is versatile; it can be used as a reward, a distraction, or an ice breaker. Food is also dangerous, addicting, frightening.\u00a0 It is often used as response to an emotional hunger. Food can bring pleasure and food can bring pain.\"girl<\/p>\n

If we could make peace with food, get in touch with our intuitive eating, change our way of thinking <\/a>and our behaviors, feed our emotional hungers, we could learn to truly experience and enjoy food without the angst that so many have attached to it.<\/p>\n

What is your food issue?\u00a0 Are you in touch with it?<\/p>\n

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Melissa Spiesman, CHHC, AADP,\u00a0is the Featured Guest Blogger at DietsInReview.com for September. She is the director of Nutrition for Your Life, a nutrition program that focuses on health and wellness through whole foods. Melissa develops individual integrative nutrition plans that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[971,928,31,1097,29],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-eating-disorders","tag-girlawhirl","tag-health-news","tag-melissa-spiesman","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}