27: What’s Up with the "Freshman 15"?

What is the “Freshman 15”? Where did this belief come from? Why do people care and talk about it so much? How to honor your body when it changes? Bodies change all the time but how do we cope? Dietitian and Eating Disorder Specialist Megan Kniskern is on the podcast today answering all these questions and giving some practical advice for first-year students and beyond!

Megan A. Kniskern MS, RD, LD/N, CEDS-S

Megan has committed the past 15 years of her career to learning, educating, and evolving the dietetics space by providing eating disorder support, weight-inclusive nutrition care, and overall healing of food and body dysfunction through a mental health, whole-person nutrition therapy approach.

She is the owner of MAK Nutrition Services, LLC based in Phoenix, AZ, providing nutrition therapy for eating disorder struggles, professional supervision, who has worked at all levels of care and provided nutrition advisory board services to treatment centers’ nutrition and culinary programs. Megan is a Senior Lecturer at Arizona State University (teaching since 2014) and is a Certified Eating Disorder Dietitian and Approved Supervisor through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp).

She is the current Past Chair for the Behavioral Health Nutrition DPG through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and currently serves as the Ambassador Coordinator for the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD). Megan’s strengths are working with complex trauma, long-term eating disorder struggles, along with her passion for providing RDs supervision in the areas of eating disorders, substance use disorders and mental health care practices.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

• Megan's Private Practice
• Megan on Instagram

Additional Resources:

• Blog about "Freshman 15" from Mindful Eating with Dr. May

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