Dietetics in Cedar Rapids
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Dietetics is the science behind food.
Food is a crucial component to living; food gives the body nutrition to stay healthy and energy to function. Food keeps humanity going. But, food isn’t always viewed as a matter-of-fact part of sustaining life. Food often gets caught in the crosshairs of a much larger cultural battle between narrow understandings of health, vanity, and human worth, sometimes even becoming villainized or divided in the process.
In reality, food is neutral—not good, not bad, just food—and dietetics helps us better understand it.
What is “Dietetics”?
All bodies,
all the time.
What does a Dietitian do?
Seeing food from a simplified lens doesn’t mean neglecting it’s vast nutritional components and benefits. Every type of food is built differently and, like the final touches to a painting, utilizing these differences in specific and thoughtful ways can fulfill physical needs, meet nutritional goals, and keep the body healthy.
Dietitians are like the painters—developing, finding, and creating ways to add and use food for better solutions.
If you are a client at HHH, you’re likely here to find support for your relationship with food, your body, or yourself—and we’re happy to have you! But whether the goal is to navigate an eating disorder, disordered eating, or a sense of self-worth and value, our therapists unpack everything on the inside: thoughts, patterns, values, beliefs, trauma, cycles. Unlike many other disorders though, eating disorders and disordered eating can have very real, very detrimental effects on the physical health. So rather than having our office focus on just one aspect of healing, we’ve decided to treat from both sides.
Our dietitian will look at the physical pieces at play—eating habits, food content, nutrition—and help formulate a plan to meet any nutritional needs or goals that may need extra support. It’s important to understand: a dietitian’s job isn’t to take food away. No food is off-limits here (unless you’re allergic). A dietitian will help you pinpoint where something can be added to help you feel better.
What would a Dietitian do for me here?
Changing weight is never the goal or motive behind our work—any of it. Health has no size, and we don’t believe focusing on changing the appearance of the physical body will ever be congruent with leading a neutral or healthy lifestyle.
It is possible that, when nutritional goals are met and the relationship between food and body is healed, there could be visible changes to the body—but there also might not be. Health is something that can rarely be gauged from the outside, so making changes in one place doesn’t guarantee changes elsewhere. But getting enough vitamins, adding new foods to help with digestion, suddenly being more energetic, sleeping better, having the confidence to accept yourself as you are: these are the changes we can see and feel. These are the changes that motivate us.
We will never ever tell you to change (or how to change) your body, but we will show you what life can look like with acceptance, a new perspective, and some inside support.
Will a dietitian help me lose or gain weight?
Meet Our Dietitian
Danea Breeden
The Health Hope Harmony Approach
At our practice, our therapists and dietitian believe in a holistic approach to healing eating disorders, disorder eating, and body imagine. No size fits all, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Interested in getting started with us?