Live Nourished: Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy

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Reject diet culture, achieve a healthy relationship with food, and nourish your body and soul with this book from registered dietitian, nutritionist, and creator behind the Instagram @TheNutritionTea, Shana Spence.

In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that robs people of their time, money, health, and joy. Its a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And its a belief that pervades our society.

Spences arguments will open your eyes to the insidiousness of this mindset and will demonstrate how its infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat perfectly actually helps to improve peoples healthno matter their size. Relayed through scientific evidence, case studies, and personal experience, Spence demonstrates why diets dont work, and provides you with a radical alternative to diet culture, one that prioritizes nourishing the body and soul and looks to bring joy.

To get there, Spence walks you through healing your relationship with food. Touching on concepts like intuitive eating and health at any size, Live Nourished provides you with a roadmap towards eating what works for you and helps you reclaim your body, mind, and life so you can focus on things that truly matter.

Spences thesis is simple: If we can learn to separate ourselves and our worth from diet culture, we can learn how to eat when were hungry, meet our bodys unique needs, and discover which foods give us pleasureall while nourishing our bodies and souls in the process.

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Shana Minei Spence is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who calls herself an all foods fit dietitian. Spence is the creator of the hugely popular Instagram account @TheNutritionTea, as in giving the tea on nutrition. She works in public health with a focus on community health and runs a private practice where she has helped hundreds of clients stop harmful dieting habits for improved health and happiness. She has appeared on Good Morning America online, has given talks for Peloton and the national Eating Recovery Center, and been featured on NPR and inSelf, Womens Health, Mens Health, Outside, Shape,and other outlets. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.