Episode description:
Val Schonberg joins Peace Meal to debate consuming issues throughout menopause, an often-overlooked interval of vulnerability for midlife people. She begins by explaining why this life stage carries an elevated threat for disordered consuming and consuming issues. Our cultural biases towards getting old and weight are partially accountable, she says, which might lead suppliers to misdiagnose or utterly miss disordered consuming behaviors. To raised serve midlife people throughout this weak interval, Val urges healthcare suppliers to re-evaluate their very own beliefs about getting old, weight, and menopause. She emphasizes that menopause is a pure part of life and never a “illness” that should be “fastened,” as many problematic cultural messages counsel. Val ends the podcast by expressing her perception that everybody can get better – irrespective of their age – and that getting old is a treasured present.
Val Schonberg is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a grasp’s diploma in diet science from the College of Minnesota. She is Board Licensed as a Specialist in Sports activities Dietetics, a Licensed Menopause Practitioner with the North American Menopause Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of Vitamin and Dietetics. Val owns a personal observe in Atlanta, Georgia, the place she makes a speciality of midlife well being and menopause, leisure {and professional} sports activities diet, all sorts of consuming issues, and serving to people break away from weight-reduction plan and disordered consuming.
Initially from Minnesota, Val’s expertise and experience come from years of observe in lots of settings, together with girls’s well being, consuming dysfunction therapy, Division 1 faculty sports activities medication, skilled dance organizations, and talking regionally and nationally on quite a few nutrition-related matters. Along with particular person diet counseling, she is the consulting dietitian for Emory Sports activities Medication and Orthopedics, Atlanta Ballet, and the Atlanta Dream WNBA crew.
Val is obsessed with offering diet care to populations weak to disordered consuming and selling constructive diet messages that assist folks make knowledgeable selections about their well being and reside a life the place they’re at peace of their relationship with meals and their physique.
We cowl:
- Why the transition to menopause can improve the chance for disordered consuming and/or an consuming dysfunction
- How all consuming dysfunction diagnoses are prevalent in middle-aged people
- Why menopausal people want help with their psychological well being in addition to their bodily well being
- How suppliers can higher serve menopausal people with disordered consuming and/or an consuming dysfunction
- How the general public opinion surrounding menopause should be modified to get rid of disgrace and stigma
In Val’s phrases:
- On the significance of self-reflection when working with menopausal people: “All of us actually need to acknowledge and problem ageism and weight bias. And, you recognize, a part of that’s then being curious, actually curious, about your personal views about getting old, weight, and menopause.”
- On supporting people who really feel uncomfortable of their our bodies: “A few of it’s simply validating, proper? ‘This actually sucks,’ as an alternative of, ‘You simply must get up and be constructive about your physique and simply settle for this.’ I’m an enormous fan of physique positivity and physique acceptance and I do a variety of work with that, however the bridge to get to that house is…. simply taking a look at it, validating it… sitting within the muck collectively.”
- On restoration and getting old: “I actually consider that restoration is feasible for everybody… and that getting old and rising older is likely one of the greatest presents in life.”
Go to EnlightenU Vitamin to study in regards to the providers Val presents. It’s also possible to observe her on Instagram (@v.schonbergrd) and Twitter (@ValSchonberg).
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