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By Jessica Wilson
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Dietitian Jessica Wilson is joined by Elizabeth Ayiku to talk about the award winning film Me Little Me, which Elizabeth wrote and directed. The film is based on her experience with disordered eating and the barriers she faced while seeking treatment. The pair get into the mechanics of indie film production including what it’s like to write, direct, cast, and financing a film when the rent is past due. They chat about the realities of many people who need mental health treatment but who aren’t able to press pause on their lives and access the time and funding to make it happen, and the different ways to find support in community.
Check out Me Little Me beginning 11/8!
Me Little Me trailer
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Making America Healthy Again Part 2! Jessica talks with 3 guests for their reflections and shares email feedback from a listener and her 18 year old daughter. Medical sociologist Dr. Natalie Ingraham joins the show to talk about the people part of all of this and the concept of “again.” She talks about the regulations of the 80s v 90s and has some solutions we could try on if we’re interested in future changes. Jessica talks to Kent Thomas about the men of it all in the MAHA conversation, and he asks Jessica why she’s looking into MAHA in the first place. Lastly Jessica brings you a conversation with her dad about his reflections of the episode. That chat was wide ranging and opened up many future podcast episodes.
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Jessica’s Curlfriends, Whitney Totter and Tigress Osborn, return to the show to talk about their hair. They share their hair journeys and chat about how hair continues to inform their identities. Hair intersections with eating disorders, mixed-race identity, health and fat liberation are spiritedly discussed!
Steven on Love is Blind
Hannah Frankson’s hair routine
Wonderful videos of women’s big chops 🥹
Jessica’s hairstylist Maya
Past Making it Awkward episodes with Tigress and Whitney
Whitney’s Patreon
naafa
BIPOC Eating Disorder Conference
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For the first episode about Make America Healthy Again, Jessica is joined by Mr Jeff Hutt, the spokesperson for the Super PAC. MAHA is “a powerful new political action committee dedicated to advancing the health-focused policies championed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. through the re-election of President Donald Trump.” Mr. Hutt provides an overview of the PAC and its principles, and the two have a wide ranging conversation about food, sustainable farming, corporate capture, mama bears, medical freedom and the concept of “again.”
Jessica is curious about the connections between MAHA, Wellness culture, and her own work; something that will be further explored in part 2.
Mr. Kennedy’s campaign suspension speech.
Podcast with RFK Jr and Calley Means
Lyn Redwood
Texans for Medical Freedom
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Jessica is back with fellow dietitian Sherene Chou for an episode about food conglomerates and their connection to the primary dietitian interest organization, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Jessica starts by recapping the past week's hysteria about the Siete food brand selling to Pepsico for $1.2B, and asks what that means.
Jessica then discusses the investments that food conglomerates and interest groups make in Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She talks to Sherene about her experiences in the Academy, from policy to bullying and burnout, and the influence of food and agriculture conglomerates on her work there. Sherene leaves listeners with insight into how the Dietary Guidelines are created.
Stay tuned for a bonus episode about FNCE from Danielle Smiley, the Plastic Surgery Dietitian.
2022 article about corporate capture of the dietetics field
Academy response to the article
FNCE
2013 article about corporate sponsorship
Dave and Carol Stelts' 2,000lbs pumpkin
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Jessica talks with journalist Vicki Gonzalez, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer after turning 40. Vicki didn’t have a family history of breast cancer or genetic predisposition which made her diagnosis even more surprising. The two talk about mammograms, ultrasounds, genetics, biopsies, lumpectomies, radiation, and Vicki’s decision to get a bilateral mastectomy in this interview.
Vicki also shared her experiences of losing two pregnancies leading up to her diagnosis and how she decided to be open about her journeys.
Vicki also shares how people can be supportive of someone going through cancer treatment.
Vicki’s Instagram
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Jessica is back with her thoughts on the TIME Magazine article about her ultra-processed food experiment. She shares her takeaways, her favorite feedback and has some BIG FOOD fun! Patrilie Hernandez then joins Jessica to talk about Dr. Kevin Hall’s research on UPFs and the intersections of race and class with food. They then dive into Lunchables-gate, and food hysteria overall.
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This week is a primer for next week’s discussion of the TIME mag article. Jessica revisits a few previous guests and a new critic to have a conversation about the discourse about ultraprocessed foods. Do we know how to define which foods are ultraprocessed? What does it mean if we don’t actually know what we’re talking about? Who benefits from that confusion?
TIME article
NOVA food classification
Dr. Robert Lustig episode
Dr. David Wiss episode
Amy Fletcher episode
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Kent Thomas returns to the show to review Netflix’s new Japanese reality series, The Boyfriend. The delightful show follows nine gay men who share a home together and start a coffee truck. They need to budget their daily expenses, all while navigating waxing and waning romantic feelings for each other. Kent and Jessica are fixated on what gets in the way of the men sticking to their food budget. The two have a full debrief on the chicken smoothie of it all, and get into the body and relationship norms of the show.
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Jessica talks with Sherene Chou about the whiteness of the Mediterranean Diet and its origins. The two chat about their mixed reviews of speaking at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health’s Healthy Kitchens Healthy Lives. Sherene discusses a variety of “healthy diets” out there and how they fall short of meeting the moment. She also spills the beans on the next superfood.
Jessica is very excited that Sherene has worked at the restaurant at the center of Bad Vegan! Should the two watch and review for an episode!?
Blue Zones, Planetary Diet/EAT-Lancet diet,
EAT-Lancet diet twitter war
Info on MedDiet research
The Whiteness of the Mediterranean Diet
https://www.sherenechou.com/
https://foodandplanet.org/
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