Eat Well, Live Well, Think Well
How can we improve our relationship with food so that we can find pleasure and nourishment in what we eat? Nutritionist Sue Van Raes shares practices that can help us understand what fulfills us and satisfies our true hungers. We can learn to trust our hunger and organic intelligence.
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Sue Van Raes
Sue Van Raes is a functional nutritionist, food psychology specialist, and wellness expert who is dedicated to helping women who are stressed out about food finally make peace with their plates. She is the founder of Boulder Nutrition where she offers many programs to support nutrition for the body/mind/spirit. Sue draws on her personal and professional experience providing a body, heart, mind, and soul approach to stop stressing and start living. Sue’s insight on nutrition, food psychology, and yoga has been featured in numerous publications, including People Magazine, The Chopra Center, The Sacred Science, and the Elephant Journal. She is the author of the book we are discussing today, Food and Freedom: Discover Your Personal Recipe to Eat, Think and Live Well.
WEBSITE: BoulderNutrition.com Social Media: Boulder Nutrition
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: Sue Van Raes brings very important concepts and practices for people who would like to have a better relationship with food and how they eat. As she says, "Food is so much more than is what we find on our plates, it is the feeling of comfort and safety we cultivate in our bodies and our homes. Our food is all that satiates our souls." Sue gave us practical information about how important regulating our blood sugar by eating a balanced diet of protein, healthy fats, vegetables (fibre and micronutrients) and carbohydrates. I appreciated how she said that we are individuals with unique needs. She shares that when we have more understanding of what is happening in our bodies when we eat, we can experience and listen to the body's wisdom. I highly recommend this program to anyone who would like to learn to eat food for nourishment and pleasure and even for those who don't have particular problems with food but would like to learn more about nourishment and how our body gives us the signals for healthy eating.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I appreciated the opportunity to discuss how we can replace an externalized approach to eating (relying on outside cues) with an increased awareness of our bodies signals about hunger and satiety. Sue Van Raes provided an updated look at the hormones that control our appetite, leptin and ghrelin. The internal cues that we can tune into include the “satiety sigh” and the decrease in the intensity of the taste of our food. I loved her expansive definition of our “food" to include the feeling of comfort and safety we feel, the connections we share with our loved ones, and all that satiates our souls.