Diet Culture

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 and much more. Links for this episode: Body Positive Pregnancy Myths about Gestational DiabetesDo I need to Lose Weight to Get PregnantKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 

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.  Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 such a huge part of finding joy and connection, a sociologist's perspective on diet culture, the importance of self-compassion and gratitude and much more. You can find Dr. Jimenez on insta @drhortenciajimenez and the links to her work from there.- - - - - - Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 behaviors for weight loss, where the 10,000 steps per day "research" came from, an eating disorder dietitian's take on nutrition tracking apps and much more. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 of how we talk about bodies and warning signs and symptoms of eating disorders and much more.Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 advertising, constantly fluctuating trends all guided by the fear of being inadequate if not being "healthy" or "thin" enough. Some basic, nutrition info is shared with emphasis on healing relationship with food. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 unlearn and make change, examples of ways to challenge fatphobic comments in the moment and much more. Link from this episode:7 Ways To Respond To Fatphobic Comments About Your Body Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 moment.Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 problem to promote weight loss along with body positivity and much more. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 nutrition and much more.You can find Kirsten: On her website, Instagram: @theintuitive_rd and on her podcast: Intuitive BitesKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 

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 culture and some words of encouragement/advice for anyone looking to explore consuming less alcohol or taking  a break from drinking.  *This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 shows, what some action steps are and why the conversation is important to be having.Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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, intuitive eating and Ellyn Satter's division of responsibilities, her fat-positive Facebook group, how parents' relationship with food impacts kids' relationship with food and much more. You can find Nicole on her website - here. And on insta @nicolecruzrdKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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: HereHere & HereKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 privilege can advocate for all body sizes, why using the term “obesity” is harmful and much more.You can find Chelsea here and on insta @chelsealevynutritionKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 behaviors, inclusion in sports and much more. Link the the statistics from NEDA: here. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 movement and restorative yoga, COVID weight gain, Brene Brown, perfectionism and much more.  You can find Connie's website here.  And her amazing Nutrition 101 course here. Her Insta handle is: @constancelyeatingKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 mechanism, how anti-diet dietitians aren't anti dietER, intuitive movement and strala yoga, addressing racism in dietetics and making eating disorder treatment more accessible and much more. Links from the episode:Strala yoga here and here Donate to Diversify Dietetics here! Find Laura here and on insta @laura.iuKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 rent, how fitness and nutrition are such a small piece of the health puzzle and much more. Resources referenced in this episode include: Social Determinants of Health The Capitalist Machine, aka Diet CultureKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon! Dani

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 white supremacy do not align, self-care, the importance of cultural foods not being swapped out for "health" and much more.  First interview with Molly and Jenna on Fit Fueled Free

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 appearance, how to talk to kids about bodies being different and encouraging inclusivity, oppression of larger bodies, the diet culture filter laid over christianity and much more. Cherie's website + Insta handle @foodfreedomtherapist

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 and on insta @bodypositive_dietitian 

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 social media feed, intuitive eating and much more. Link's from episode: Lauren's websiteLauren's instaAnd check out her Feel Good Flashcards!

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 StigmaWeight ScienceHealth at Every SizeEvidence for Weight Inclusive Health Policy Check out the pod on Youtube if you prefer to watch & listen.And keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon!

Season One of Diet Culture launches on Tuesday, May 4th. Until then, enjoy this trailer!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.Check out the pod on Youtube if you prefer to watch & listen.And keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content.Talk soon!