Date: 2005-present
Website: StopBeingSweet.com

Press:
Think Out Loud
Oregonian
Culinate
Portland Tribune

Presenting at Oregon Health & Science University’s March Wellness

Stop Being Sweet is an ongoing interdisciplinary project that attempts to re-story our positive conditioning to sugary and processed foods. A personal journey that began with a public blog about my own battle with sugar addiction, Stop Being Sweet has grown to include various cultural interventions such as an ebook, adult Trick-or-Treating, a Holiday Sugar Challenge, lectures, and public support group meetings for people who struggle with sweets.

Research has included nutrition, exercise, eating disorders, psychology, obsessive compulsive disorder, advertising, the food industry, political practices, and genetically modified organisms. Stop Being Sweet examines and adapts themes such as diet programs, social activism, health gurus, self-help, branding, persuasion, twelve step counseling, consumerism, and pop psychology.