Making It Awkward

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.

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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.

Kent's instagram

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Jessica welcomes Shana Spence, MS RDN, of The Nutrition Tea, to the show to talk about food elitism, Wellness culture and her new book Live Nourished; Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy.

Somehow we always get back to anti-diet dietitians making cereal ads. And this time we mention the connection to Anahad O'Connor and his Lose It app.

Also, Jessica is in Time Magazine!!

Jessica's videos with her dad:

Drip Drop should have been Gatorade

Liquid Death

Olipop

Liquid IV

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Jessica welcomes Dr. Naima Reddick who played rugby for the women's national team. She was part of the community that started https://www.rugbyforall.com. The two talk Olympics, women's sports, gender equity and the gender panic that seemed more prominent at these Olympics than in previous years. Naima shares what should really matter in women's sports. Jessica realizes that she got swept up and distracted by the gender hysteria and what that means. She ends by discussing where Paris went wrong in its nutrition decisions.

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Making it Awkward is turning 1 and Jessica celebrates by looking back at the first season's highs, lows, most awkward moments. She returns to a very puzzling conversation with Amy and then reminds listeners of her dad's message for all of you.

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