Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders [Paperback]

This book is written with an insiders understanding of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. This resource provides essential information on nutrition, body image, and eating disorder prevention.

ACT I: Setting the Stage

1. Dancing in Diet Culture

2. Dancing on Empty

3. Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Dancers

ACT II: Prevention, Prevention, Prevention

4. Prevention: Why, Who, What, and When?

5. Prevention: Language, Messages, and Modeling

ACT III: Nourishing the Whole Dancer

6. Gentle Nutrition for Dancers

7. Nourishing a Dancer through Injury  

8. Nourishing Balanced and Resilient Body Image in Dancers

9. Whole Dancer Health

Epilogue

 

I have been waiting for a book like Nourishing Dance to be written for years, to support my teaching and leadership roles in dance. An essential and compassionate guide, Saigal's new work offers value-driven, informative, and tangible tools for caring for dancers. This vital contribution to the dance industry breathes hopeful energy into our sector and will galvanize a new era of artist care.

Kerry Nicholls, Associate Artistic Director, San Francisco Ballet

 

This brilliant book is a must-read for dancers, parents/caregivers, dance educators, and leadership as it offers the best of modern science, social-psychological theory, and comprehensive, practical recommendations, enhanced by Saigals unique expertise as a dancer and celebrated dietitian for dancers.