Healthy Reads is a collection of practical, science-backed articles on eating well and feeling better — covering nutrition, stress and burnout, sleep, hormones and menopause, healthy habits, and natural ways to relax. Written by Catherine Polet, a certified holistic nutrition health coach, each one is here to give you clear, realistic steps you can use straight away — no fads, no guilt, no extremes. Browse by topic below, or just start reading.

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What is a group coaching program?

Everyone is on a different path in life. The sooner you recognize and accept it, the sooner you will make the right decisions for yourself, where you are, and, above all, where you are going.

You get many values. Some of these benefits will continue to help you far beyond this initial coaching experience.

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What is bio-individuality?

Each person is unique and that is a wonderful thing! This means that everyone has unique nutritional needs. There is no standard diet that works for everyone.

The diet must be adapted according to age, sex, body type, physical activity, health issues, but above all, it must also take into account the usual rhythm of life, tastes and habits.

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Why you need more food not less!

What if this year you just focus on being happy, balanced and fueling your body with whole delicious food that makes you feel awesome?

Not just for the month of January, but for the entire year, and rest of your life. No diets. Nothing fancy. Just real food.

Eating well doesn't need to be difficult or complex. In fact, it can be downright simple and fun.

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How to achieve your health goals

Habits, whether good or bad, dictate how we live each day and how we behave at times. Unfortunately changing habits, especially bad ones, is quite a difficult task. 

There are habits that we have ingrained in our lives for a long time. They are automatic, you don't even think about having to do certain things, they come to you by nature.

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It’s not about New Year's resolutions, it’s about taking the decision and start

It's been a few years now that I've been dropping my New Year's resolutions because I haven't always been able to follow them. Yes, I am guilty of that too! And you probably are as well.

Whether you want to get better and healthier or you want to start your side gig, for one reason or another, you've had a hard time sticking to them, or even starting. Maybe it's because you expected it to happen on its own, without putting any effort into it or planning what is required. And because it didn't happen the way you wanted it to, you just gave up. It's quite usual.

Why does it happen? Because you didn't have the right approach.

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What is Intuitive Eating?

Intuitive eating encourages you not to fear food and to listen to your body. Intuitive eating rejects the dieting mentality and respects what the body needs, instead of having "forbidden" foods and labeling foods as "good" or "bad", as diets often do. The act of eating becomes positive and allows you to regain your freedom of eating.

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Weight loss and self-image

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed by conflicting messages from the media and a long list of experts telling us that we should feel good if we eat a certain way, exercise enough or control ourselves.

We don't know what to think anymore. In addition, we are often told that if we do not have the ideal weight, if we do not follow a perfect diet and if we do not have unlimited energy and health, then we are doing something wrong.

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