Description
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 "obesity" epidemic is a social justice issue, privilege, Health at Every Size, how diet culture cannot be fixed without ending racism and so much more.
Links for research on:
Weight Stigma
Weight Science
Health at Every Size
Evidence for Weight Inclusive Health Policy
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Dani
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 books and apps, how pregnant/postpartum bodies are viewed...
Published 11/30/21
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 and the general stress of the holidays and much more....
Published 11/23/21