Trigger Warning: discussions of food, diet and weight. I have always had difficulty with feeling positively towards my body, long before I ever became disabled. For as…… Read more “Weighing on my Shoulders.”
Tag: Health
Revisited: GETting Nowhere.
A lot has changed in the five years since I first created Diary of a Disabled Person, so I decided to take a look back at content…… Read more “Revisited: GETting Nowhere.”
Food For Thought: The Impact of Disability on Food Choice.
When I was studying nutrition at university one of the most deceptively complex and interesting topics of discussion was why people choose to eat the foods they…… Read more “Food For Thought: The Impact of Disability on Food Choice.”
Diary of a Disabled Feminist: Embracing the Flab.
Part 1 is available here. Welcome back to Diary of a Disabled Feminist; this is the second part of three in the mini-series. You can find last…… Read more “Diary of a Disabled Feminist: Embracing the Flab.”
Doctor Google.
As a nutritionist working in medical research, one of the banes of my existence is Dr Google. “I read an article that said-”, “But I found on…… Read more “Doctor Google.”
The Rejects: 6 Assumptions About Nutrition That Are Utter Bull.
Rejects 1, 2, and 3 are available by clicking each number. Food and nutrition pops up in our news feeds every day, with someone claiming that eating…… Read more “The Rejects: 6 Assumptions About Nutrition That Are Utter Bull.”
The Rejects: 6 Things in Food Way More Dangerous Than Additives.
Reject 1 is available here. Back in the wildly free and untroubled days of 2007, newspaper headlines would have had you believe that food additives were going…… Read more “The Rejects: 6 Things in Food Way More Dangerous Than Additives.”
What Came Before.
Given that the title of this blog is Diary of a Disabled Person you could be easily forgiven for thinking that discussing my life prior to disability…… Read more “What Came Before.”
Nutritional Nutters.
Some would say that completing a degree with a disability is quite an achievement, but as a Millennial even the greatest of achievements pales in comparison to…… Read more “Nutritional Nutters.”
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