One Small Bite

Hola amigos! Welcome back! What if we allowed gratitude into our lives more? What could happen? David reflects on the year and has exciting announcements for what is new and upcoming.  Highlights of this episode: How Gratitude helps us  Ways to Build Gratitude  What’s next in 2022 Episode Summary:  With COVID having another variant lose, please get yourself vaccinated if you can and have physical...

Hola amigos! Welcome back!   Another diet app.  Diet culture is sneaky! While this app says it’s not a diet, there are so many red flags to show it is another diet app! Instead of spending weeks and money towards this app, tune in to learn why you can just ignore it.   Highlights of this episode:  How to Identify a Diet App’s Approach is a Diet Diet Research is Skewed  What to Do Instead of Dietin...

Hola amigos! Welcome back!  Loneliness is another pandemic and it’s effecting our health. Did you know loneliness is a form of stress? How does loneliness occur? What can we do about it? Don’t miss this great episode that invites us all to find more connection.   Highlights of this episode:   Loneliness is stress  Society Risks of Loneliness Masculine and feminine loneliness  Social and emotional...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Body shaming is unfortunately everywhere. Body shaming comes from the desire to be in a thin body. Sadly, that thin ideal is killing us.   Highlights of this episode:   Defining Body Shaming Argument Against Shaming  Problems with Thin Ideals Thin Bias in Healthcare  Body Shaming Environments Body Comments Translated  Body Acceptance  Episode Description:  Body shaming i...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Ho ho ho, the big holiday season is here.  How can we use our intuitive practice to manage holiday stress? Intuitive eating helps us connect to ourselves through interoceptive awareness. While diet culture wants to blame the food and food culture, maybe there are other things to be mindful of during this busy time of year. Whether the holidays drive you to eat more or le...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! In honor of Movember, tune in to learn how masculinity screws with men's health and what we can do about it! Masculinity damages men because masculinity is arbitrarily defined and trauma is marginalized. Through teaching emotional intelligence tools to men, masculinity could help men thrive instead of killing them.  Highlights of this episode: Behaviors of Masculini...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Tune in to learn about reframing the diet mentality during the holidays. Thanksgiving is about gratitude towards bounty, don’t let guilt and fear of foods drag that down!   Highlights of this episode: Vicious Famine and Feasting Cycle Reframing Diet Culture Thoughts Building Interoceptive Awareness Where do I go from here? Listener Feedback Survey is still open!  Click h...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Want more energy? Instead of another crazy diet, tune in to learn more about sleep hygiene. Highlights of this episode: Getting More Energy Hormones Affected by Sleep Sleep and Body Weight Sleep Cycles Habits to Improve Sleep Resources from Episode: National Sleep Foundation - Top 10 Tips for Better Sleep Study Review - Feeding the heat on brown fat Announcements: Listen...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! What does nutrition science really say about cancer? For Men’s Health November, David dives into nutrition myths surrounding prostate cancer.  Highlights of this episode: Prostate Cancer Nutrients of Interest Inflammation Pathways Where do I go from here? Listener Feedback Survey is still open!  Click here to give your feedback.  Four lucky participants will be randomly...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! The recommendations to lower sodium or salt in food is promoted as a personal responsibility. Is that fair? What does the research really say? Highlights of this episode: Sodium Controversy  Jeff’s Story Alexithymia  Sleep and High Blood Pressure November is Men’s Health Awareness Month   David’s personal connection to this observance is from his father, who suffered fro...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! It’s a trap! Tune-in for a rundown of why diets do not work. There is a better way to get what you want.  Highlights of this episode: Diets are… unsustainable behaviors  unscientific, no evidence unrealistic promises crazy extremes  supplements can be harmful endorsements, not evidence feelings of increased desires Announcements: In-person, individualized nutrition consu...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! This is a story that weight-loss programs do not want you to know. Tune in while David questions if weight loss is actually helping. Warning: if you are triggered from talks about obesity, BMI, or weight, please skip this episode. Highlights of this episode: Diet culture fails 95% Red flags in weight-loss programs Weight-inclusive health What pausing can do Link(s) from...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Do you see nighttime snacking as a problem?  Listen in to hear a real client's story and how intuitive eating lead to many discoveries. Highlights of this episode: Real life struggles Emotional Eating Permission to Eat  Facts about Nighttime Snacking Approaches to Nighttime Snacking Announcements: We have conversations that help chop diet mentality and create peace...

Hola amigos! Welcome back!  David is going to share a story from his new book, planned to be released in 2022. This story is about caffeine. Don’t worry, the message may not be what you think.  Highlights of this episode: Caffeine and stress cycle  Autopilot syndrome Caregiver syndrome Interoceptive awareness Domino effect Description :  Imagine a person who helps everyone but the self. The day is...

Welcome back mis amigos!    Tune in as Grace Wong and David Orozco discuss a newly recognized eating disorder, ARFID.  ARFID stands for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and professionals are just now starting to understand it.  Topics we cover include…  What is ARFID? Who is likely to develop ARFID Assumptions in eating disorders How trauma affects eating  Treatment of ARFID   Introducing...

Welcome back mis amigos!    David’s client, Dr. Wanda Williams, shares her hero’s journey through the intuitive eating process. A classic tale of someone who gives and gives, and almost forgot to take care of herself.  Topics we cover include…  A client’s journey through intuitive eating Emotional eating clarified  Weight cycling  Self-care is food and food is self-care   Stay Connected!    For fu...

Welcome back mis amigos!    Intuitive eating is not just for recovery from chronic diets, it can be used in everyday nutrition care and medical nutrition therapy. Tune in to hear Angie discuss a gentler nutrition approach for athletes, digestive issues, and raising kids. Topics we cover include…  Intuitive Eating with Athletic Performance  Intuitive Eating with Digestive Issues Intuitive Eating wi...

Welcome back mis amigos!     Why New Year's replay right now? Because that holiday season is around the corner. Time to re-visit some tips that will hopefully keep you from being sucked back into diet culture. Scroll to find out more...  David speaks with a nurse who experienced food obsession herself, which led her to commit to finding a kinder solution that didn’t involve depriving herself....

Welcome back mis amigos!    Goals are important, right? Tune in to learn about interoceptive awareness and why Maria and David think that goals are not pass nor fail, but an experiment.   Topics we cover include…  Personal training and disordered eating  How much food is too much food? Challenges of Intuitive Eating  Counseling through binge and emotional eating Real New Year’s Goals Weight assump...

Welcome back mis amigos!    The internal dread of holiday season is common. When it comes to diet culture, Erica brings reason to the season with psychological oxygen.  Topics we cover include…  Multicultural experiences help reject diet culture Explaining HAES and Intuitive Eating Where weight obsession comes from Weight-centric care is lazy medicine Tips to Avoid Weight Centered New Year’s Resol...

Welcome back mis amigos!    Have you or a loved one been to physical therapy and left disappointed?  Tune in to listen to a pioneer physical therapist who uses traditional training combined with other related fields that revolutionize how we recover from injury and pain.  Topics we cover include…  Short-comings of traditional PT Related professions of PT Rehab vs. performance  Holistic physical th...

Welcome back mis amigos!    Is there a way to avoid aging? Not exactly, but Chris Tiley shatters the myth that frailty and weakness are fate with age. Sounds too magical? Not really!  Topics we cover include…  Weight Lifting Over 60 Years Old  Common Myths of Aging: What You Can and Cannot Do Common Challenges to Weight Lifting Weight Lifting with Mental Conditions How to Avoid Injuries during Wei...

Welcome back mis amigos! Many parents know the recommendations for healthy eating for their kids, but how does work exactly when meal time comes around?  What happens when children and families have problems with eating?  Julie C.H. Brake , MS, RDN, LD, talks with David about her approach that has worked for her clients.   Topics we cover include…  Family and children nutrition   Competence eating...

Welcome back mis amigos!  Topics we cover include…  ·         Emotion-Focused Family Therapy  ·         Client-Centered Care  ·         Adverse Childhood Experiences ·         Social Identity Threats ·         Trauma-informed care ·         Diabetes Management Without Judgment   Nikki Estep is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) and...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! This episode is Part 2 of episode 101 from the previous week, click here if you want to catch up.  Ashley and David criticize the implicit bias affecting people in larger bodies with diabetes and what this provider does to advocate for her patient’s well-being. Plus, more science about how trauma relates to the digestive system! Topics we cover include…  The process of d...