Mama Needs A Moment

Ep. 14 Unpacking Diet Culture & Body Image w/ HER Expert Panelists, Fall Roundtable

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The third HER Health Collective Roundtable of 2021 focused on exploring diet culture and body image issues.⁠ Our quarterly roundtables bring the HER Expert Panelists together to share their knowledge and discuss important health topics that affect mothers. It’s our hope that shedding light on this important topic and having open discussions like this, will help reduce the number of women who are silently struggling.

The 2021 HER Expert Panelists involved in this discussion include:

  • Katherine Andrew – MPH, RD, LDN – Registered Dietitian Nutritionist – Areas of Specialty: gut health, food sensitivities, hormones, family food dynamics & intuitive eating
  • Dr. Erkada DeRouen – MD – Family Medicine – Lifestyle medicine board certified physician – Associate Medical Director Telemedicine, focus: health equity and diversity and inclusion in the telemedicine and start up space.
  • Dr. Lisa Folden – DPT – Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness – Mom Life Coaching
  • Kerry Jones – RD – Pediatric and Maternal Nutrition – Milestones Nutrition
  • Dr. Susan Lovelle – MD, MACM – Holistic Wellness – Founder, CEO Premiere Wellness
  • Anna Lutz – MPH, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S – Lutz Alexander and Associates Nutrition Therapy – Non-diet Nutritional Counseling (HAES & Intuitive Eating)

    • Topic Summary:

    • History of diet culture
    • Definition of diet culture
    • Evolution of the “perfect body”
    • Weight bias, social status and power
    • Co-opting of HAES terms
    • Financial influence of diet culture
    • Inflammation and weight, BMI and weight, outdated and questionable research
    • Dealing with statements that promote diet culture and spread fat phobic beliefs
    • The rise of orthorexia nervosa
    • How each expert personally practices body appreciation

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