Diet Culture
Diet culture takes up our time, our money, our happiness + it distracts us from more important issues. This Anti-Diet / Eating Disorder Dietitian is here to have honest conversations in order to shed light on why we need to take down diet culture and where we need to go from here.
Episodes
26 episodes
25: Diet Culture and Pregnancy
Dani chats with Nick about her experience of encountering how diet culture / fat-phobia is so tightly wrapped up with advice and resources for pregnancy, the alarming and unhelpful nutrition advice given, lack of inclusivity in popular bo...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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50:50
24: Navigating Thanksgiving
Dani chats with Nick about how diet culture shows up at Thanksgiving around recipe suggestions and fear-mongering about weight gain, checking in around joyful movement vs "burning off what you're eating" how to navigate food and body comments a...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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43:12
23: Dr. Hortencia Jimenez
Dani chats with Dr. Hortencia Jimenez about micro aggressions and oppression impacting diet culture messages, the cultural importance of tortillas and how to take back fear foods, how eating foods that are important to you and your family is su...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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38:40
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22: Fitness and Nutrition Trackers
Dani chats with Nick about an article she read for CECs on fitness and nutrition trackers and how easily the mark can be missed when education is being provided around warning signs for eating disorders while also promoting restrictive behavior...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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45:07
21: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part Four - Eating Disorder Myths
In the fourth installment of a four-part Halloween-themed series on why diet culture is spooky, Dani chats with Nick about breaking down eight myths about eating disorders that are harmful and can interfere with access to care, the importance o...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:07:36
20: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part Three - Misguided Nutrition Claims
In the third installment of a four-part Halloween-themed series on why diet culture is spooky, Dani chats with Nick about how difficult it is to make choices about what we consume when there is so much conflicting information, sneaky advertisin...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:00:18
19: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part Two - Fatphobia
Dani chats with Nick for the second part of a four-part Halloween-themed series about how spooky diet culture is. This ep focuses on the definition of fatphobia, why it's a systemic form of oppression that needs to be dismantled, ways to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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54:01
18: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part One
Dani chats with Nick in the first of a four part Halloween-themed series about how spooky diet culture is. This ep goes back to the basics of why diet culture is frightening with suggestions on how to combat diet culture and fatphobia in the mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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47:52
17: On Our Society That Stops at Nothing to Promote Shrinking Bodies
Dani chats with Nick about recent articles reporting on the increase in childhood "obesity" due to the pandemic, a new study on weight loss actually promoting dieting, weight stigma statistics, "self-labeled" anti-diet dietitians, why it's a pr...
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41:33
16: Kirsten Ackerman
In this episode, Dani chats with Kirsten Ackerman, MS, RD, CDN about intuitive eating, how transformative it is and not in the way we’re used to with diet culture, mindful movement, healing body image, the importance of consistent nutriti...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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47:33
15: On Relationship with Alcohol
Dani chats with Nick and gets personal about her one year update after giving up alcohol for a year in 2019/2020, the impact drinking can have on anxiety, how alcohol plays into healing relationship with food and body and is represented in diet...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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38:19
14: Celebrity Influence and Diet Culture
Dani and Nick take a more in-depth look at the connection between celebrity and diet culture and why it’s harmful, specifically in the context of podcasts run by well-known actors and other people with influence and advertisements made on their...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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43:40
13: Nicole Cruz
Dani chats with Nicole Cruz, MS, RDN about rules around what it means to feed kids appropriately while being guided by diet culture, how to learn to break down that barrier to help kids be intuitive eaters and shape language around food, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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46:56
12: On Toxic Nutrition Advice from the Internet
Dani chats with Nick about nutrition and fitness articles giving toxic tips for how to "keep up healthy habits" with the world opening up after COVID and how to spot the red flags for disordered advice.Referenced articles:
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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41:51
11: The Problem with "Lifestyle Changes"
Dani chats with Nick about how "lifestyle changes" are often diets in disguise, defining health broader than nutrition, exercise and weight, how to challenge fatphobia, Noom and much more.Keep up with me on Insta
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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51:36
10: Chelsea Levy
Dani chats with Chelsea Levy, MS about how to advocate for not seeing your weight at the doctors, how to find safe providers, incorporating breath work into ED care, body neutrality for people in marginalized bodies, how providers with thin pri...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:05:27
09: What Even is Normal Eating?
Dani chats with Nick about how to define "normal eating" in general and for each individual person, how diet-culture-y commentary is unhelpful and in many cases harmful, how weight stigma (internal or external) prevents health-promoting behavio...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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49:07
08: Constance Weissmuller
Dani chats with Connie Weissmuller, MS, RDN, about fat phobia ingrained in the medical field, ageism, her Nutrition 101 course, internalized bias for thinness, juice cleanses, diet culture influence on instagram, healing relationship with movem...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:01:56
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07: Laura Iu
Dani chats with Laura Iu, RD, CDN, CNSC, RYT about ditching the traditional nutrition education and adopting HAES and intuitive eating, the spectrum of disordered eating, trauma from dieting and food insecurity, using dieting as a coping mechan...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:01:46
06: Money Can't Buy Happiness but it Can Buy Groceries
Nick joins Dani to chat about social determinants of health, the net worth of the diet industry, how having access to food first is more important to health than being able to buy "health" foods, having to make choices between groceries and ren...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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59:28
05: Molly Bremer
Dani chats with her friend and fellow dietitian, Molly Bremer, MS, RD about how nutrition and the field of dietetics is white-washed, personal and professional growth during COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement, how HAES and wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:02:50
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04: Cherie Miller
Dani chats with Cherie Miller, LPC about the science behind HAES and intuitive eating, finding support when you feel alone in healing relationship with food, why health care providers may decline supporting weight loss, how privilege affects ap...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:05:20
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03: Kimmie Singh
Dani chats with Kimmie Singh, MS, RD about body positivity, fat-phobic politics and advocacy, how weight stigma impacts health, self-care and so much more. You can find Kimmie here<...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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52:14
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02: Lauren Cadillac
Dani chats with Lauren Cadillac RD, RDN, CPT about her Feel Good Flashcards being a great tool in the process of ditching diet culture, her journey with body building, healing relationship with food and movement, importance of diversity in your...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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59:23
01: Diet Culture Is About so Much More Than Dieting
In the first episode of Diet Culture, Dani and Nick talk about ways that diet culture is so pervasive in society, why intentional weight loss isn't a sustainable or health-promoting behavior, socio-economic determinants of health, how the...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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59:55