Making It Awkward

By Jessica Wilson, MS RDSociety & Culture

Making It Awkward episodes

August 08, 2024 Re-Release: Jessica's Ultra Processed Food Diet Results with Amy Fletcher
Re-Release! In this episode Jessica shares the results of her month of eating 80% of her diet from ultra processed foods. She was surprised to find that her experience was far different from those of Dr. Chris van Tulleken. She talks to Amy, a chemical engineer working in food processing, about lessons learned and how the narrative about UPFs fit into society.

NOVA classifications of food

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Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠

36 min
August 01, 2024 Hedonism, Palatability, and the Science-ification of "Junk Food;" Same advice, different packaging.
Jessica wraps up the conversation about food addiction and ultraprocessed foods that began with her interview with Dr. David Wiss. She thinks that Dr. Wiss's message is one that the nutrition field has shared for years.

You can read Dr. Wiss's ⁠4500+ word blog entry⁠ about cancel culture in the eating disorder field.

You can find the first episode here.

The second episode is with Molly Robbins.

NOVA classifications of food

Drs. Katherine Flegal and Walter Willett

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Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠

20 min
July 18, 2024 Sex is the Sixth Vital Sign; HIV, PrEP, and Disclosure with Pablo Sarmiento, NP
On today's episode Jessica is joined by Pablo Sarmiento, NP, a family nurse practitioner working in the Department of Medicine subspecialty of Infectious Diseases. Pablo is a PrEP provider and the two discuss PrEP research, HIV incidence, disparities, updated language, and HIV disclosure.

Resources:

https://www.hiv.gov/

https://www.thebody.com/

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html

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Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠

42 min
July 11, 2024 Eating Disorders, Food Addiction, Hyperpalatability, and Mental Health with Dr. David Wiss
Dr. David Wiss joins the show to talk about his recent comment in the Journal of Eating Disorders, "Dismantling the myth of "all foods fit" in eating disorder treatment." The two talk about eating disorders, ultra-processed foods, food addiction, and hyperpalatable foods. Dr. Wiss discusses his idea of a harm reduction meal plan, and shares how he applies nutrition to mental health.

Additional articles mentioned:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40519-016-0344-y

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7600542/

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How to support this podcast? Follow, rate and review and subscribe to ⁠Patreon⁠ membership with access to bonus content and announcements! Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠
52 min
July 04, 2024 Where Were You When Gaza Was Starving? With Dietitians Maya Torres, Laila Shanaa and Malak Saddy
Jessica is joined by Palestinian-American dietitian, Laila Shanaa, and Lebanese-American dietitians, Maya Torres and Malak Saddy to discuss the eating disorder field's (lack of) response to forced starvation in Gaza. They also discuss concerns about refeeding syndrome, the iaedp certification, their evolving views on the racial reckoning and thoughts on Independence Day.

Nutrition diagnosis for Abu Issa family
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How to support this podcast? Follow, rate and review and subscribe to ⁠Patreon⁠ membership with access to bonus content and announcements!
Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠
51 min
June 27, 2024 Love on the Spectrum! with Jessica and Her Spouse
Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Jessica's spouse, Elisha, joins the show for a relationship quiz. Afterward Elisha shares how she started thinking about her autism and shares a device that she's found helpful in monitoring her overwhelm.

Mentioned in the episode:

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Jessica's dad trying Liquid IV

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Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠
29 min
June 13, 2024 Salsa is a Vegetable!; Reclaiming Our Cultural Foods with Dalina Soto, RD
Dietitian Dalina Soto of @your.latina.nutritionist joins Jessica to talk about getting spicy on TikTok when a dietitian decided to tell us that salsa isn't a vegetable. The two talk about how so much of her work is correcting misinformation about cultural foods, and helping people to reclaim them. They chat about curves and a time she was told she was "too sultry" for a company's campaign. They also get into acculturation, veganism and wrap the conversation with a brief discussion of PMDD and at what point in her menstrual cycle Dalina gets sassy on social media.

Dalina and Jessica just happened to record this episode as the news was breaking that tacos and burritos are sandwiches, according to a judge in indiana.

Original salsa video

Dalina stitching

Work with Dalina https://yourlatinanutritionist.com/nutritionlibrary

Dalina's book updates https://yourlatinanutrition.ck.page/2a1d2edacc

Dalina's merch https://yourlatinanutritionist.com/shop

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How to support this podcast? Follow, rate and review!

New ways to support the show! ⁠Patreon⁠ membership with access to bonus content and announcements!

Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠

40 min
June 06, 2024 Tuzz! The Dietetics Field's Response to Forced Starvation is Trash; with Malak Saddy, RD
Malak Saddy, RD, a Lebanese, Muslim dietitian joins Jessica for a conversation about forced starvation, and how their profession has responded. Malak shares how the personal and the professional cannot be separate and how she is bringing her experiences to her work and advocacy.
You can find Malak You can find her on Instagram @malaksaddy or via email [email protected].
You can find the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Statement on Global Famine here.

Email the show: [email protected]
Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson
You can watch this episode on Spotify and at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod⁠
How to support this podcast? Follow, rate and review!
New ways to support the show! ⁠Patreon⁠ membership with access to bonus content and announcements!
Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠
37 min
May 30, 2024 NPR Told Us To Eat Like Peasants; Its Living Better Series was Good for Clicks and Giggles
NPR launched its NPR's Living Better series a year ago. It spent a year investigating health disparities with a goal of bringing us solutions and hope. The lead story was from journalist Allison Aubrey, the number 1 nutrition journalist in the country. Jessica shares what she learned from this series, and what that means for the public.

Dr. Kevin Hall

Dr. Robert Lustig episode

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New ways to support the show! ⁠Patreon⁠ membership with access to bonus content and announcements!

Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠

33 min
May 23, 2024 Tight Sphincters; on Being "Divisive" in the Eating Disorder Field with Dr. Deb Burgard
Jessica is joined by Dr. Deb Burgard, a psychologist and one of the co-founders of the Health at Every Size approach. The two of them talk about Jessica's recent keynote presentation in which she discussed an ad for an eating disorder treatment center. She was not expecting the backlash she received. Deb and Jessica are often labeled as people who are divisive, or being mean to people in the eating disorder establishment. Listen in to hear about a time that someone fainted after they disrupted a conference, and why Jessica still has hope.

Email the show: [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode on Spotify and at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod⁠

How to support this podcast? Follow, rate and review!

New ways to support the show! ⁠Patreon⁠ membership with access to bonus content and announcements!

Jessica's book: ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠
54 min

About Making It Awkward

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What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration.