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Dr. Zo Amaro Jimenez and Isaac join Jessica to discuss her interview with surgeon Dr. Blair Peters about BMI cutoffs in gender affirming surgeries. Zo and Isaac provide their feedback, share their own experiences with gender care and their work in helping others access their own. Dr. Asher Larmie contributes a very powerful and personal video for this episode as well.

Prior interview with Blair https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-it-awkward/id1698799122?i=1000646327681

Thanks to everyone who participated in this conversation. Let's keep it going.

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They're back! Wendy and Jess, the duo behind Food Heaven fame pivoted to Diabetes Digital, an online platform for diabetes education and support. In this episode the two share how they decided to pivot, and how they chose diabetes. Jessica asks them about the questionable diagnosis of prediabetes, some patient consult questions and of course about the Ozempic of it all.

You can find them now at https://diabetesdigital.co/

The beginning of the Food Heaven pivot series. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diabetes-digital-podcast-by-food-heaven/id1041814489?i=1000612450824

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Info on how prediabetes developed:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168822722000316

https://www.science.org/content/article/war-prediabetes-could-be-boon-pharma-it-good-medicine

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Jessica is joined by Dr Blair Peters, a gender affirming surgeon to discuss why BMI cutoffs exist in common gender affirming surgeries including chest surgery, phalloplasty and vaginoplasty. Blair breaks down the different ways that body size impacts the surgery and the results. They talk about the structural barriers that exist when doing surgery on larger people and dig into the dehumanization of surgeons and patients in this ongoing conversation.

Blair's Instagram reel link

Blair https://www.ohsu.edu/providers/blair-peters-md

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Jessica talks to Tigress Osborn (she/her), a fat rights advocate and the Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, about fat liberation and fat joy. NAAFA has worked for over five decades to change perceptions of fat and to end size discrimination. In 2023, Tigress co-launched the Campaign for Size Freedom alongside colleagues at NAAFA and the Fat Legal Rights Advocacy and Education Project (FLARE). Tigress is an intersectional feminist teacher and writer whose fat liberation work has been featured in USA Today and Newsweek, heard on BBC AntiSocial and ABC News, and seen on Everyday Feminism and NewsNation network. Follow NAAFA @naafaofficial and Tigress @iofthetigress.

Story on NYC law https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/364-23/mayor-adams-signs-legislation-prohibit-height-weight-discrimination-employment-housing-#/0

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Give my regards to Broadway. Jessica is joined by Stephanie Lexis, founder of the Broadway Body Positivity Project and Libby Parker, The Broadway Dietitian, to talk about all things food and body in theater. They talk about casting, costuming, eating and get into IBS on stage.

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Jessica chats with Dr. Whitney Trotter and Meghan Cichy, MPH RDN about her and Whitney's interview with Steve Dunn in the first Litigation and Legacy episode. The three reflect on the interview and what it means for the field. They discuss iaedp's certification and whether or not it should be preserved in the midst of all of this.

You can see Meghan's math on the certification and the text of Steve's lawsuit here.

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Jessica watched Netflix's You Are What You Eat; A Twin Experiment and was disappointed. The documentary did not make the case for her to be vegan for physiological reasons, or really for anyone else. She talks about this, and everything the series left out with Jen Jacobs, her editor, who shares some about her experience as a fat vegan. The two chat about how the show seemed like an extended commercial for vegan food brands and how they wanted way more of the charming twins.

Also, when did Eric Adams and Cory Booker become vegan experts???

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Part 1. Dr. Whitney Trotter joins Jessica for a conversation with Steve Dunn. Dunn is suing the International Organization of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) in a class action lawsuit, representing a clinician who is as an iaedp-certified eating disorder specialist. The three of them discuss this lawsuit and his previous lawsuit against NEDA. Steve also brings up ASDAH and terminal anorexia.

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ASDAH

Article on terminal anorexia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2023/11/01/anorexia-suicide-controversy-jennifer-gaudiani/

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Jessica talks with Dr. Whitney Trotter, DNP APRN PMHNP-Bc RDN and Angela Goens, MS RDN LD about being Black clinicians in the eating disorder field. They talk about what it's like to work in treatment centers and how their clients' care differs from the standard treatments. They discuss the organization iaedp, and how Jessica's calls for divestment from iaedp influenced Whitney and Angela. They wrap up with discussion of the BIPOC Eating Disorder Conference

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Jessica talks with Shantille Connolly, a senior health promotion specialist at UC Davis about their process of instituting a policy to make being weighed an opt-in measure at the clinic, rather than a default, and Shantille's future projects including a team focused on size inclusive care. Jessica also discusses boofing as a Wellness trend that is in for 2024 and shares that "food is medicine" should be out this year.

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Notes:

Weight stigma website at UCDavis

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