Worrying less about food will ultimately leave room for the more important things in life. These are just a few of the benefits associated with intuitive eating: Improved quality of life While intuitive eating is relatively new, there have been around 200 studies analyzing its impact on health. Building trust with yourself and your relationship with food is the main focus of intuitive eating, and many benefits come with it. While weight loss can take place during intuitive eating, it is not the primary goal. It is important to note that intuitive eating is a weight-inclusive or weight-neutral approach, meaning the emphasis is not on size and body weight. Whether it’s a bowl of veggies or a few slices of pizza, the right choice lies within what your body wants. With intuitive eating, a person can listen to their body and decide what will fill their needs at that moment. Food fills a vital role whether it’s to fuel our body or simply to make us happy. There is no guilt or shame about eating the foods we want with intuitive eating. As teens and adults, it’s common to feel guilt over so-called “unhealthy” foods and feel pressured to only be consuming “healthy” foods. When we grow older, we tend to stray away from these simplistic ways because of our emotions, societal norms, upbringing, and culture. Life changesĪs babies, we have an innate quality to eat when we’re hungry and stop when we’re full while eating the foods we like and rejecting the foods we don’t.
Together these principles lay the basis for intuitive eating and serve as reminders to focus on what your body responds to well while dropping the mindsets that restrict certain types of food from your diet.
Honor your health with gentle nutrition.This concept was first started by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, who established ten principles as the foundation of intuitive eating: Ten principles of intuitive eating This initiative strives to get people back in tune with their bodies and remove any obstacles that stand in the way of listening to the body’s cues. Intuitive eating is gaining traction and becoming a popular concept in the health and wellness world for its focus on unity between the mind and body and removing the strict mindset of “healthy vs. By: Madison Boissiere, Undergraduate Student in Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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