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IdilsWorld, Toronto, ON (2025)

05/21/2024

Self compassion looks different every day. This is your
Kind reminder by a fuller size black nutritionist!

I'm discovering firsthand the profound impact that self-compassion can have on our overall well-being and resilience. So take a moment to embrace your imperfections, honour your humanity, and be gentle with yourself today 🤎.

Idil

05/15/2024

SAVE THIS POST, and if you don’t learn anything else from this page, please, please, for the love of everything good, consider this your friendly reminder from your black neighbourhood nutritionist, whether you are among the many who are suffering from painful and disruptive tummy troubles, or you are blessed with perfect digestion, you are only as healthy as your microbiome.

Honesssstly, there isn't an organ system in our body that isn't supported or in connection tothe microbiome.

Let me know if you’ve learned anything, or if you knew this already.

💬 Want to learn more about how to support your gut microbiome and health? Drop a comment or DM us!

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05/12/2024

Ahhh, today! Motherhood for me is honestly one I find to be such remarkable gift and a privilege that I hold very close to my heart. Helping to shape someone else’s well-being is both exhilarating and terrifying 🤦🏽‍♀️.

Priorities become very clear when you become a mom. I know mine did, I stopped sweating the small stuff. I realized the art of being a mom and of being a woman is in the dance. It’s in the way both the knowing and not knowing are able to live in harmony. That not having all the answers doesn’t mean that you won’t try your darnedest to find them.

I am so grateful for this little human , to my family who keep me grounded. I’m grateful for my friends who have become my family and for my clients who allow me to help them reconnect with their bodies and their health😌❤️.

04/26/2024

As a Black Nutritionist, I'm tired man. Far too often in this health space, we see white-washed nutritional standards promoted - always used as the ideal while the cultural food of those of the Global Majority is demonized and coined as unhealthy. Ugh.😑

As a community, we really need to acknowledge the importance of oppression and racism on our foods. Seriously, naming the oppression in order to begin dismantling it.

The Wellness industry, is rooted in colonial, racist practices. Let's just call it what it is!The wellness industry is just that -- an industry who profits of shaming you and making you feel guilty for enjoying food you love (aka chicken suqaar, briyani, jollof, fufu, kamounia just to name a few).

If no one else will say it - I am here to tell you it's time to take back our foods and its narrative. These foods not only nourish our physical bodies but bring a spiritual component to food that is missing from modern food.

SAY COUNT ME IN, if you agree !!!

04/19/2024

I never post content like this 😳. But recently, I have been thinking so much about this - where, people will judge the legitimacy of the work I do, because of my being a full figured woman.

Though I get that - so much of us, have grown up understanding health to look one way, just as we understand beauty as one way - but, the truth is, you can be a full figured person, and be more healthier and well then someone who is small figured and ‘ideal’ looking.

The topic of fatphobia, is one I cannot wait to speak to more.

Consider this, the beginning to a larger conversation I can’t wait to continue having with you.

Leaving it here for now! 💁🏽‍♀️

04/07/2024

I'm surprised that so many people barely glance at what comes out of their bodies in the toilet. 😳 - honestly, I ALWAYS encourage my client to look before they flush, because thissss teaches us so much about ourselves.

There was a time when back in the day, we would understand the health of people's bodies through their urine. Crazy right?

If you found this interesting, or want to learn more, let's connect!

04/01/2024

When it comes to gut health, there's one aspect that's often overlooked but holds significant importance: your stool. Yes, you heard me right, it might not be the most pleasant topic of conversation, but your bowel movements can provide valuable insights into your overall gut health. Let me give you a few reasons why you should pay attention

Get to Know Your Normal: Everyone is unique. By regularly observing your stool, you'll establish what's normal for you, making it easier to notice when something changes.
Floaters or Sinkers?: Stools that consistently float may indicate excess gas or malabsorption of nutrients, such as fat. While occasional floaters are usually nothing to worry about, persistent floating stools warrant that you seek medical attention.
Take a Wiff: While no stool will ever smell like roses 💐, extremely foul odours could be a sign of an underlying issue, such as an infection or a problem with nutrient absorption.
Colour Code Your Health: The colour of your stool can be a telltale sign of your gut health. While shades of brown are typical, red or black stools could indicate bleeding, and very pale stools might suggest bile duct obstruction.
Consistency Matters: The texture of your stool is a key indicator of your digestive health. Hard, lumpy stools may suggest constipation, while watery stools could indicate diarrhea or an infection.
Lifestyle and Frequency: How often you go and the size of your bowel movements can be influenced by your diet, hydration levels, and physical activity. A sudden change in frequency or size could indicate a shift in your gut health.
I promise you, your stool is a valuable indicator of your gut health. For me, observing my stool wayback when was the first step towards healing my gut. It might not be the most glamorous task 😆, but it's a simple step that could provide important insights into your overall well-being. If you notice any persistent changes, don't hesitate to reach out to me or your healthcare provider.

Xoxo

Idil

05/10/2022

Food

Most of us chew and swallow our food without a thought of how or why it’s utilized within the body. If there is one thing about food, its never just food. Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its basic purpose of sustaining life, food and foodways of a culture are archives that can be used to connect to origin and ancestry.

There are places you visit that connect you back to origin and ancestry, that transmit communal wisdom, that affirm both the individual and group identities. Bolgatanga in the upper east region Ghana, is such a place.

I truly believe, that every soul with a physical body needs to ask themselves the question, how close does the foods I am eating resemble their original state? Is the food I am eating, made in a lab or can it be found in nature. We assume if it’s sold at our supermarket that it’s edible, and useable by the body. This just simply isn’t so. I urge you friends to read your food labels, know what ingredients you are feeding your body because your lives depends on it.

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05/05/2022

Dear Body

I love you! I am sorry for telling you so many lies about you. I reduced you and used words with you I would never use with others. I told myself stories about you that were not true and did not honour how scared you are.

I’m sorry for the ways I have neglected and ignored you. You have sent me so many signals and messages that I didn’t listen to. I covered up your voice with distractions, until I silenced you.

I’m sorry I’ve kept you stuck and small when you wanted to expand, and be free. I am sorry for blaming you for holding me back and believing what other people said about you.

Thank you for the countless functions you preform to keep me a live. Thank you for carrying my child. Thank you for helping me move, together we have travelled the world. Thank you for teaching me to care for myself and what it means to rest, be present and still.

I love you for showing up for me and being my home. I love you for the miracle that you are. I love you for the ways you let me experience life. Through adventure, through taste and smell and sound. Without you, I wouldn’t know joy. Without you I would not be alive.

📸: .dawson
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03/02/2022

If food is life—the currency of our nourishment, the information for our cells, our connection to our culture and identity and all aspects of the natural world— we need to consider, what is the true cost of food?

The cost is deeper than the face value cost that is scanned on the barcode at the grocery store. Instead of remaining a source of nourishment, food has been transformed into a commodity. This has lead to rising prices, food insecurity and social instability. The food system is badly broken and since we need food to survive this is an important subject to explore.

The fact is the better the source of nutrients when it arrives to your cells, the better your health will be. So ask yourself, where does the food you choose to fuel your body comes from?

This is the conversation that we will be having this month on this platform among other things.

Happy Nutrition month!
Idil

03/02/2022

Our inner guidance system is mediated via thoughts, emotions and bodily feelings and senses. It’s often referred to as our intuition or our sixth sense. But it’s actually our first sense, and it’s the one we are born with—and get talked out of early on by a culture that favours left brain reasoning.

Living in touch with our inner guidance involves feeling our way through life using all of ourselves: mind, body, emotions and soul. Today’s body talk conversation with Abena Offeh-Gyimah founder of and is all about the importance of tuning into our bodies innate body wisdom.

Join us, for what’s going to be an amazing IG Live conversation today @ 12:00 pm EST, 5:00 pm GMT.

02/24/2022

Today we are raised to think of food as a kind of enriched fuel, a source of calories and a carrier for vitamins which helps prevent disease. In contrast, our ancestors understood food as a holy thing and eating was considered a blessed act and a form of self caret. This was evident in their songs and prayers which reflected their belief, that in consuming food each of us comes in contact with the interconnected web of life.

Join me Tomorrow for an IG Live conversation at 2:00 pm EST with Eden Hagos the founder of .co and . Her platforms explore food and culture through a black lens. Our conversation will be on how black people can include food as an intentional part of their self care. We will explore healthy way of living where our food, values, attitudes, and mindful actions become part our daily routine to balance our bodies and maintain our health.

02/16/2022

The concept of “ideal” body weight is not only extremely destructive for many women but also an obsolete way of thinking about health. Almost all women (myself included) have been brainwashed at some point in their lives about what they should weigh.

In 1832, Adolphe Quetelet, a mathematician, first created a tool using the data from predominantly white European men, to measure body weight in different populations (and not to determine individual health). In 1972, a physiologist named Ancel Keys renamed and reintroduced the tool as BMI—the medical and the healthcare community has since used it as a standard to measure of individual health for the general population.

Among the limitations of the BMI, is that it does not account for diversity in body composition, genetics, ethnicity or cultural diversity. The BMI is discriminatory because it was based on the findings of a white-male dominated study, whose data has been used and extrapolated to create standardized norms and expectations for the individual health and body size for women and radicalized people.

The BMI upholds the idea that the often-thinner bodies of whites are standard to which everyone should be held and therefore superior to the mostly larger bodies of people of African descent. Also, most women’s bodies have more fat in them than men, nature’s way of ensuring that the energy needs of childbearing and lactation. Despite all of that, the healthcare system continues to use such a narrow parameter to categorize individuals into ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ camps.

Sadly this not only fuels our obsession with weight but also contributes to this largely unchallenged perspective from healthcare providers who view obesity as an avoidable risk factor, which inevitably leads to behaving in a bias towards those with a higher . The fact is, a number does not tell our whole health story.

02/14/2022

You are the love story….

Let’s talk about love in a different way than we usually do. We hear so many stories about a romantic partner, but what about falling in love with ourselves. As society we, put emphasis on the external, at the expense of our own individuation and integration. But whether we recognize it or not, each and everyone of us is our very own .

Regardless of the status of your love life at this particular moment in time, you are the one you’ve been waiting for. You can stop looking outside of yourself for your better half. That better half is already inside you. When you make yourself whole, that is when you will bloom.

Self love is about loving the parts of yourself that you have outsted to the margins or obscured in the shadows. The vulnerabilities, the tender areas that make you feel unsure, insecure or ashamed. The idea of of taking time , making the space, and cultivating a wonderful world for you.

How many other people in your life do you do that for? What if you directed some of this love back to yourself, and used it to fuel that advocacy, to fuel that healing that is so critical to your health.

02/06/2022

Here’s what my travels in West Africa taught me.

Before doing anything, asking myself: “Does it really have any impact on how you approach your life?”

Oftentimes we look to our external environment for sustenance and to provide happiness and fulfilment for us. It never really lives up to what we had in mind though, does it?⠀

You know what the real flex is though- happiness that’s not tied to anything but being content. Read that again.

If I have learned anything, it’s that - true happiness does not come with money, it comes from living in your purpose. When you are in places that nourish your soul, feed your senses and really allow you to be present and connected.

So, what’s one thing that you can do today to take a step towards your happiness?

Idil ❤️

02/03/2022

By the time you finish reading this sentence, 20 million new cells have just been replaced in your body. That is 20 million, in just a few seconds. Compound that over a lifetime, and, well, your body achieves some pretty incredible feats.

Today’s Body Talk conversation is with Doctor Samira Hassan . Samira is a GP working in Leicester, a Palliative care lead with a specialist interest in Women’s health & Global Health.

Our conversation is going to cover how to listen to the bodies messages before the whispers become screams. How to honour the body with holistic medicine a marriage between western medical system and traditional medicine.

Join us Today at 5:00pm EST— 10:00pm GMT. Our conversation will also unpack how Body image and beauty among black women and how that can only be truly understood within a framework of interlocking systems of “isms” – (e.g., racism, sexism, colourism, classism, heterosexism). Looking forward to this conversation.

02/01/2022

Hello Family!

It’s been a while since I checked in. And since then, we have so many new friends who have joined us!

So, a short intro;

I am a licensed nutritionist based here in Toronto. Between living my best life traveling somewhere warm, you can find me here teaching holistic and culturally accessible nutritional health.

As a Black Immigrant, who is the daughter of Somali camel herders, I put my community first and foremost.

Also, as a proudly curvaceous BIPOC woman I dedicate my practise to helping women listen to the messages and signals of their bodies before those whispers become screams.

My food story is deeply imbedded in my cultural identity. I use a “food first strategy”, whether I am working with an audience of one or many.

But one thing to expect in this space is the importance of connecting our physical, emotional, and mental health.

If you know me, you know that I refer to myself as
the , which cycles back to when we drew our medicine from food, plants, herbs and traditional ways of healing. To me food is medicine and the kitchen is my ultimate Farmacy.

Thank you for always supporting me and I hope you come on this journey with me ❤️🙏🏽.
dawson

01/26/2022

The way we are in our bodies tells the story of who we have been up to this point in our lives. It reveals what we have been told by others about ourselves, how we self-identify, and what we believe about the world and our place in it. For this reason, how we embody this physical home that houses our soul may be our most comprehensive nonlinguistic form of autobiography.

Tomorrow’s Body talk IG live conversation is with . Qali is a multi-hyphenate creator, researcher and storyteller who works to communicate human truths and the things that connect us. Qali holds an MPH and works in the development and humanitarian sector. You can connect with her on socials, her blog beingqaali.com or her podcast The Qonnect.

Join us Tomorrow at 12:30pm EST. Our conversation will unpack how we evaluate our bodies, what experiences influence and shape our body image, and what emotions it signals in us. The goal is to provide space for all of us to heal, connect and embrace the wisdom of our bodies. I can’t wait ti see you all there!

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