Engaging Introductions: Capturing Your Audience’s Interest

The initial impression your blog post makes is crucial, and that’s where your introduction comes into play. Hook your readers with a captivating opening that sparks curiosity or emotion. Address their pain points or questions to establish a connection. Outline the purpose of your post and give a sneak peek into what they can expect. A well-crafted introduction sets the tone for an immersive reading experience.

Crafting Informative and Cohesive Body Content

Within the body of your blog post lies the heart of your message. Break down your content into coherent sections, each with a clear heading that guides readers through the narrative. Dive deep into each subtopic, providing valuable insights, data, and relatable examples. Maintain a logical flow between paragraphs using transitions, ensuring that each point naturally progresses to the next. By structuring your body content effectively, you keep readers engaged and eager to learn more.

Powerful Closures: Leaving a Lasting Impression

Concluding your blog post isn’t just about wrapping things up – it’s your final opportunity to leave a strong impact. Summarize the key takeaways from your post, reinforcing your main points. If relevant, provide actionable solutions or thought-provoking questions to keep readers thinking beyond the post. Encourage engagement by inviting comments, questions, or sharing. A well-crafted conclusion should linger in your readers’ minds, inspiring them to explore further or apply what they’ve learned.

Engaging Introductions: Capturing Your Audience’s Interest

The initial impression your blog post makes is crucial, and that’s where your introduction comes into play. Hook your readers with a captivating opening that sparks curiosity or emotion. Address their pain points or questions to establish a connection. Outline the purpose of your post and give a sneak peek into what they can expect. A well-crafted introduction sets the tone for an immersive reading experience.

Crafting Informative and Cohesive Body Content

Within the body of your blog post lies the heart of your message. Break down your content into coherent sections, each with a clear heading that guides readers through the narrative. Dive deep into each subtopic, providing valuable insights, data, and relatable examples. Maintain a logical flow between paragraphs using transitions, ensuring that each point naturally progresses to the next. By structuring your body content effectively, you keep readers engaged and eager to learn more.

Powerful Closures: Leaving a Lasting Impression

Concluding your blog post isn’t just about wrapping things up – it’s your final opportunity to leave a strong impact. Summarize the key takeaways from your post, reinforcing your main points. If relevant, provide actionable solutions or thought-provoking questions to keep readers thinking beyond the post. Encourage engagement by inviting comments, questions, or sharing. A well-crafted conclusion should linger in your readers’ minds, inspiring them to explore further or apply what they’ve learned.

Engaging Introductions: Capturing Your Audience’s Interest

The initial impression your blog post makes is crucial, and that’s where your introduction comes into play. Hook your readers with a captivating opening that sparks curiosity or emotion. Address their pain points or questions to establish a connection. Outline the purpose of your post and give a sneak peek into what they can expect. A well-crafted introduction sets the tone for an immersive reading experience.

Crafting Informative and Cohesive Body Content

Within the body of your blog post lies the heart of your message. Break down your content into coherent sections, each with a clear heading that guides readers through the narrative. Dive deep into each subtopic, providing valuable insights, data, and relatable examples. Maintain a logical flow between paragraphs using transitions, ensuring that each point naturally progresses to the next. By structuring your body content effectively, you keep readers engaged and eager to learn more.

Powerful Closures: Leaving a Lasting Impression

Concluding your blog post isn’t just about wrapping things up – it’s your final opportunity to leave a strong impact. Summarize the key takeaways from your post, reinforcing your main points. If relevant, provide actionable solutions or thought-provoking questions to keep readers thinking beyond the post. Encourage engagement by inviting comments, questions, or sharing. A well-crafted conclusion should linger in your readers’ minds, inspiring them to explore further or apply what they’ve learned.

I am so excited to share that I have joined LK Nutrition, a private nutrition practice based in Brooklyn specializing in eating disorders and disordered eating struggles. I met the founder Lindsay Krasna back when I was still a student, when she graciously allowed me to interview her for a school project. Now I’m honored to work with (and continue learning from!) someone who has a truly compassionate and 100% Health at Every Size informed approach to nutrition counseling. I’m joining with a special interest in binge eating disorder, helping those with a complicated relationship with food, and endocrine disorders, as well as a wide range of other medical conditions. Virtual sessions are available now — please reach out to me via the Contact page if you’re interested in working together.

Borrowing language from the LK Nutrition website, here is some information on the approach we use:

“Our style is person-centered, collaborative, strengths-based, compassionate and trauma-informed.

We work through a lens of weight inclusivity. This means we are committed to promoting a peaceful relationship with food and movement for individuals of all shapes and sizes. This also means we believe that weight stigma, including the pathologization of body size, is harmful to health.

​Our work with each client is highly individualized and looks different for each person. Some of the theories that inform our approach include Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Health at Every Size® (HAES®), the Non-Diet Approach, and the Division of Responsibility in Feeding. Each of these frameworks also have their own limits. We work creatively and flexibly with each client, keeping in mind individual circumstances and access to resources.”

Please visit www.lknutrition.com to learn more!

Anti-diet messaging must always recognize the role of racism in diet culture and healthism, and participating in diet culture perpetuates this harmful bias and stigma against bodies of color, especially BIPOC bodies. Yes, it’s a really uncomfortable feeling to sit in. But it’s really important that we talk about it, especially this week.

Maybe it starts with the first question of “Why are black people at higher risk of chronic illness?”. No matter what the answer is, we cannot stop there. We have to ask “why” five more times, or ten more times, in response to that answer to really understand the root cause of health disparities in the black community. 

Why is this group less connected to the healthcare system? Why don’t medical professionals believe black people when they say they are in pain? Why is there less access to fresh food for these communities? Why are black and brown bodies more likely to be doing essential work, that puts them at risk for a disease like Covid-19? Why is the assumption that when you live in a larger body, you are more lazy, more greedy, less worthy of lifesaving treatment?

The answer to “Why do we fear fatness?” deserves the same number of “whys”, and I believe the answers won’t stray too far from that of the first question above. Society has placed the harshest judgments on black bodies. Rather than caring for black people equally, respecting size diversity, and looking at an individual’s health through a holistic context (How are your relationships? Are you safe? Are you economically secure? Are you employed? Do you have mental health support? And so on), a weight-centric healthcare system asks, why is it so hard for you to lose weight? 

It’s a complex issue that 10 years after public health school I am still learning about. I highly recommend Dr. Sabrina String’s latest op-ed  “It’s Not Obesity, It’s Slavery”, which explores the failing social structures that lead to the health disparities among black communities. I also plan to read her book “Fearing the Black Body: Racial Origins of Fat Phobia”, to educate myself further on this topic. It’s important to me because as I try to dismantle the thin ideal and help people find health regardless of their weight, we can’t ignore the racist beliefs that got us to where we are as a weight-centric society.

Sending love and healing to the many communities devastated by this week’s tragedy.