Welcome to the Nutrition Rocks Real Life Page. Here, we will be sharing stories of overcoming adversity, touching on real issues and showing how real people have overcome them. This page will be used as an expressive platform for our readers to tell their personal story, with the hope to inform and help others in similar situations.
Be Your Own Mirror
by Jenni Trent Hughes If you wanted an accurate reflection of yourself where would it be best for you to look – in a mud filled pool of sludge or a crystal clear bucket of water from the spring? Look in the sludge and you’ll see mud on your face where none exists. It is [...]
by Gwyneth Harrison Whether or not fat is a feminist issue, weight is something that occupies us both privately and in the wider public domain. There has to be something wrong with our collective psyche when we have an obesity problem that is only getting worse, and yet we have children as young as 10 [...]
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By Laura Crowden, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. During Fashion Week, the media will predictably zero-in on the so-called ‘size zero debate’. Models and eating disorders, and the unrealistic body image promoted by the fashion industry, is nothing new. What is different, is that the fashion industry’s obsession with body weight is no [...]
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By Carina Birrell The word DETOX sparks up so many associations these days. From organic body products claiming to drain toxins, massages and natural remedies, maple syrup diets promising miraculous weight loss (and spiritual enlightenment), supplements to purify hair, skin, blood and organs; strict regimes of fruit, vegetables, lean protein and brown rice or juice [...]
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By Carina Birrell The first two days of the detox enabled me to settle comfortably into the 7 day fast and cleansing program. At this point, the detox process still held its novelty and I was intrigued – the sunshine, setting and peace were wonderful! On my second evening I was excited to proceed with [...]
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By Emily Stephens I used to love the feeling of purging. To me, the best part of vomiting up your food is the feeling of release. Not a physical release from the food, but a mental release from all of the misunderstood emotions exploding within me. If I ever felt sad, guilty or angry it never used to register [...]
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By Emily Stephens My Road to Recovery… …I finally admitted I needed help when my father looked at me one morning with a tear in his eye and said that he couldn’t bear to watch me slowly killing myself in front of them anymore. I was admitted into The Priory in Roehampton after trying to [...]
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By Dr. Nagore Benito Whilst almost everyone nowadays would quickly recognise the symptoms of bulimia, it is still, in my opinion, a poorly understood problem. Indeed, too many people have an over simplified notion of what it is and consider it just a way to purge oneself into a slimmer body. Regrettably, that is usually [...]
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