1. What is Normal Eating: Blogs to Help You on Your Quest to Health

2. The Blogs that Best Helped Me  The Fat Nutritionist (fatnutrionist.com/)fatnutrionist.com/  Dieting Dietitian (diaryofadietingdietitian.blogspot.com/)diaryofadietingdietitian.blogspot.com/  The New York Times (blogs.nytimes.com)blogs.nytimes.com  Born to Eat! (leslieschilling.wordpress.com/)leslieschilling.wordpress.com/  Nutrition in a Nutshell (nutshellnutrition.wordpress.com/)nutshellnutrition.wordpress.com/ Michelle, The Fat Nutritionist

3. What is Normal Eating? Normal eating is going to the table hungry and eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it—not just stop eating because you think you should. Normal eating is being able to give some thought to your food selection so you get nutritious food, but not being so wary and restrictive that you miss out on enjoyable food. Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is mostly three meals a day, or four or five, or it can be choosing to munch along the way. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it is eating more now because they taste so wonderful. Normal eating is overeating at times, feeling stuffed and uncomfortable. And it can be undereating at times and wishing you had more. Normal eating is trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating. Normal eating takes up some of your time and attention, but keeps its place as only one important area of your life. - Ellyn Satter MS, RD, CICSW, BCD, Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family

4. Why are those the defining characteristic of normal eating?  The blog authors are all nutritionist, dietitians, or both with degrees in their fields  Because it has come from a reliable source—Ellyn Satter—the leading expert in the field  If comes from a knowledgeable source, and multiple professionals go to that same source, it’s most likely acceptable.

5. Hierarchy of Food Needs

6. How I Found these blogs  The Fat Nutritionist – Tumblr  Google searching:  “food nutrition blogs”  http://www.causematters.com/ag- resources/food-nutrition-blogs/ http://www.causematters.com/ag- resources/food-nutrition-blogs/  “guide to normal eating”  Variations of phrases  Dieting Dietitian via “related: ellynsatter.com/”  “healthy”, “diet/dieting”

7. What can blogs and similar resources offer students?  An individual’s perspective  New terms to learn, use, and search for/with:  Body acceptance, critical dietetics, intuitive eating, size positive  Finding credibility: subscriber numbers, “About” pages with credentials, language, searching for author’s name elsewhere, where they found their evidence and articles