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 upda...

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 ...

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.- - - - ...

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...

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 educatio...

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 f...

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...

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...

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 ...