Changing Habits

You Don’t Have to Clean Your Plate, No Matter What Your Parents Said

Food Doesn’t Have Feelings

Julie Cunningham, MPH, RD
4 min readOct 1, 2023

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I feel sorry for the food because nobody else wants it, so I eat it to get rid of it, even though I really don’t like it and I’m not hungry.

These are the words of my client. Let’s call her Anna.* Anna is a smart, successful…

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Julie Cunningham, MPH, RD

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