Body in Context

Essays on nutrition, movement, recovery, and health through the lens of context, physiology, and lived experience. Exploring how bodies actually work in real life.

Defining Diet
Heidi Pasch Heidi Pasch

Defining Diet

Diet is not something you start or stop. It is the ongoing pattern of nourishment, always in motion. When diet became a verb, shame and restriction followed. A return to the noun. A return to something steady. A return to what is lived, not controlled.

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The Food Rules We Teach Without Saying a Word
Heidi Pasch Heidi Pasch

The Food Rules We Teach Without Saying a Word

Children learn food rules by watching how adults eat, speak about their bodies, and move through meals—not through lectures. The quiet modeling happens long before the rules are ever named

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