Nutrition Matters Podcast

By Paige Smathers, RDN, CD

Self-Help Kids & Family Fitness & Nutrition

What's Nutrition Matters Podcast about?

Join Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist, as she explores popular topics in nutrition, interviews experts in the fields of wellness and health, and celebrates the successes of people who have overcome eating disorders, weight struggles, and food issues.

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163: Q&A—Peace with Food Du...

12.04.2019

In this episode, Paige answers a few questions about food and the holidays. Here's an outline of the talking points for this episode: When you've been told you need to lose weight but also need a healthy relationship with food ...

Nutrition Matters Podcast episodes:

12.04.2019 163: Q&A—Peace with Food During the Holidays In this episode, Paige answers a few questions about food and the holidays. Here's an outline of the talking points for this episode: When you've been told you need to lose weight but also need a healthy relationship with food ...
11.18.2019 162: What Every LDS Missionary Should Know About Food, Nutrition & Body Image Before Serving In this podcast episode, Emily Fonnesbeck joined Paige to discuss the topic of LDS missionaries and how they can cultivate and foster a healthy relationship with food and body before, during and after missionary service. In this episode, we discuss ...
11.04.2019 161: The Diet-Binge Cycle and How Isabel Foxen Duke Finally Stopped Fighting Food Isabel Foxen Duke shares her personal story of chronic dieting and how her quest for thinness ultimately led her to treatment for an addiction to cocaine. She shares her recovery story and how her struggles with food and body image ...
10.21.2019 160: Intentionally Diversifying Who you Learn From Online and In-Person Take a quick inventory of your social circles both in-person and online. If you see that everyone you spend time around is the same as you, registered dietitian Christyna Johnson is on a mission to shine a light on the ...
10.07.2019 159: The Similarities and Distinctions Between Addictions & Eating Disorders Amanda E. White is a licensed professional counselor and yoga teacher. She specializes in working with women with eating disorders, substance use disorders and trauma and specifically how they overlap and intersect. She is in recovery from a substance use ...
09.23.2019 158: Exploring Enoughness in Eating and Beyond Intuitive Eating simplified and boiled down is essentially about getting enough. Enough food, enough satisfaction, enough enjoyment, etc. The concept of enoughness is critical to explore in order to move forward with healing your relationship with food. Linda Tucker joined ...
09.09.2019 157: Demystifying Gentle Nutrition & Its Role in Intuitive Eating The last principle of the Intuitive Eating book is "Honor your Health with Gentle Nutrition" and this podcast episode dives into this topic, exploring what it means, how to know you're ready, and what it looks like on a practical ...
08.26.2019 156: Fatness in Indian Culture In this episode, Kimmie Singh shares her experience of the intersection of fatness in Indian culture. She shares her experience of eating disorder recovery and going to school to become a registered dietitian while being a higher weight person. She ...
08.12.2019 155: "Is it My Fault?"—Tips and Resources for People who Love Someone Struggling with Food Nutrition Matters Podcast provides many resources and conversations exploring how people can heal from disordered eating and struggles with food. This episode goes in a different direction than the norm: Kathleen and Paige dive into providing tips and resources for ...
07.29.2019 154: Navigating a Vegan Lifestyle while Embracing Intuitive Eating Are Intuitive Eating and Veganism mutually exclusive philosophies? Taylor Wolfram, RDN and Paige wrestle with this question in this podcast episode. As a dietitian passionate about body autonomy and promoting a peaceful relationship with food who also happens to eat ...
07.15.2019 153: Hitting Diet Rock Bottom We're all familiar with what the term 'rock bottom' means—but, what does that look like with food and body image? Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CDE, CEDRD-S joins Paige on the podcast to explore rock bottom with diets and body image ...
06.24.2019 152: What Does it Look Like When Things are Going Well with Nutrition and Body Image? This podcast outlines ways to identify when things are going well with your relationship with food. It's understandable that we spend significant amounts of time talking about where things go wrong and what to do about it, but I think ...
06.10.2019 151: The Distinction Between Mindfulness and Intuitive Eating This week on the podcast, I'm sharing an episode where I was a guest discussing mindfulness, intuitive eating, self-compassion and more: some of my all-time favorite concepts! We discuss how mindfulness fits into intuitive eating and vice versa. If you've ...
05.27.2019 150: A Simple, Straightforward Way to Decide What To Eat "Okay this is all great, but what should I eat?!" If I had a nickel for every time I've been asked this question, I'd a rich woman! While it's totally understandable to want answers to this question, it's actually much ...
05.13.2019 149: How Connecting to our Instinct to Eat can Help us Make Peace with Food As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith tells stories of women. With her new book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, Virginia explores how we can find the power to reconnect to our bodies and our own ...
04.29.2019 148: Practical Tips for Cooking for One Cooking for one can be difficult to navigate for many reasons. It's easy to get into the mindset that it's not worth it to cook for one. All the diet rules swimming around in your brain can make cooking more ...
04.15.2019 147: Q&A—Comparison, Diet Culture Messaging, Bingeing vs. Restricting and More In this episode, I go through listener questions about intuitive eating, making peace with food and how to navigate diet culture. Here are some more specific questions I dive into in this podcast episode: How can I ease the anxiety ...
04.01.2019 146: Demystifying Gut Health & the Microbiome In this episode, I speak with Jessie Hoffman, PhD about her experience as a nutrition researcher and gut health expert. We discuss her dissertation studies on the gut microbiome and environmental pollutants and specifically take a deep dive into how ...
03.18.2019 145: Bodies & Modesty in Mormonism: the Complexities of a Religious Culture & Body Image Lexie and Lindsay Kite, PhD of Beauty Redefined® joined Paige on the podcast to talk about a topic that they've been outspoken about since the inception of their non-profit: modesty and Mormon culture (also known as the Church of Jesus ...
03.04.2019 144: Writing to Get Free & Unlearning to Heal Melissa Toler is a speaker, writer, and educator. Her work encourages people to make the connection between our culture's oppressive beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-acceptance. She has written extensively on diet culture and the toll it takes ...
02.18.2019 143: The Paradox of Permission with Intuitive Eating Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD is the co-author of the book: Intuitive Eating. Evelyn is an award-winning registered dietitian, with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. She has written nine books including the bestsellers Healthy Homestyle Cooking and Intuitive ...
02.04.2019 142: What Marie Kondo Can Teach Us About Food Marie Kondo's approach to tidying up is taking the world by storm. Her new Netflix special has shot her into the spotlight and has gotten people discussing joy and tidiness on all sides of the spectrum. But what can her ...
01.21.2019 141: When Intuitive Eating Is Your Native Language Diana K. Rice, RD, LD, is known as The Baby Steps Dietitian and is the founder of Diana K. Rice Nutrition, LLC, where she works with families to eat well and reduce the stress surrounding their food choices. She specializes ...
01.07.2019 140: The Magical Power of Saying No I've missed all of you while I took a two month break from podcasting!! Happy New Year and welcome to 2019. This podcast episode is all about what I've been up to over the last two months including an experience ...
10.31.2018 139: Your Holiday Food & Body Image Survival Guide Molly Bahr, LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor currently stationed for a year in Haiti. She has a private practice primarily focused on individual therapy for eating disorders, disordered eating, anxiety, depression, and trauma working from a Health At ...
10.24.2018 138: Sports Nutrition & How Athletes Can Work with their Bodies Fiona Sutherland is Director of The Mindful Dietitian & Body Positive Australia and has been practicing for 15 years primarily in the areas of eating behavior, eating disorders, body image, sports nutrition & education/training. She has been integrating the Non ...
10.17.2018 137: Happiness isn't a Size: An Interview with Jes Baker, Author of Landwhale Jes Baker is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love advocacy and mental health. She is internationally known for preaching the importance of body liberation, hard conversations, strong coffee, and even ...
10.10.2018 136: Exploring Privilege and Why it Matters in Health & Nutrition Nicole McDermid is a Social Worker, Counsellor (Australian spelling) and an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, with over ten years experience working in the mental health field. Not only does Nicole practice in the clinical sphere, she is also a speaker ...
10.03.2018 135: What is Intuitive Eating? [Part II] I'm stepping outside the box again on this podcast episode and bringing you another solo recording. Before I recorded last week's episode, I asked my Instagram followers what their questions were about intuitive eating. I got so many questions that ...
09.26.2018 134: What is Intuitive Eating? I'm stepping outside the box on this podcast episode and bringing you a solo recording. This episode is full of the main things you need to know about intuitive eating. If you've been exposed to the idea of intuitive eating, ...
09.18.2018 133: Exploring a Path to True Health & Happiness Monica Mo, PhD is a brand and media strategist and business coach for health professionals. She shares her process of being involved in the scientific world with models and studies and how she evolved into her professional and personal approach ...
09.12.2018 132: We Are All Born to Eat Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN came on the podcast to talk about her book Born to Eat. We talk about Leslie's guiding philosophy that each of us is truly born to eat. We talk about her unique approach to feeding infants ...
09.05.2018 131: What It Means to Nourish Yourself Inside & Out Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S just came out with a new book called Nourish: how to heal your relationship with food, body and self and she came on the podcast to talk about the question so many people have: how ...
08.29.2018 130: Why #nuancematters in Conversations about Gut Health & Nutrition Science Jessie Hoffman, PhD (c) came on the podcast to talk about why nuance matters when it comes to nutrition, health and science. Jessie is an expert in gut health, so we take some time in this episode to debunk some ...
08.22.2018 129: When It's About the Food and It's Not About the Food In this episode, Laura Thomas, PhD explores the concepts of weight stigma and weight bias in detail, and discuss how sometimes it's about the food but it's not about the food. Laura shares about the importance of not being complacent ...
08.15.2018 128: Beyond Halal—Understanding Muslim Practices and Eating Patterns Rahaf Al Bochi is a registered dietitian and owner of Olive Tree Nutrition LLC. She specializes in diabetes prevention and management and intuitive eating. She also has a special interest in the Mediterranean eating pattern and shares about her experience ...
08.08.2018 127: Tips for Shifting from Rigid Meal Plans to Flexibility with Food Devrie Pettit, MS, RD is a registered dietitian who has gone through an interesting professional journey from selling meal plans online to supporting a message focused on Intuitive Eating, HAES, and restriction recovery. She and her best friend started an ...
08.01.2018 126: The Intersection Between Addiction and Nutrition Nutrition during addiction recovery is an often very misunderstood and mischaracterized element of healing. Healing from addiction requires a multi-faceted approach and nutrition can play an important role. However, it's not the end-all-be-all of wellbeing. In this podcast episode, Tessa ...
07.25.2018 125: Resilience Through Loss Laura Iu is a registered dietitian, intuitive eating coach and yoga teacher who is passionate about helping people heal their relationships with food and body. She lives and works in New York City and helps people heal themselves through food ...
07.18.2018 124: Performative Health vs. Embodied Wellbeing This podcast episode dives deep into some of the most critical and core concepts within the realm of health and healing. I spoke with Dr. Lilia Graue, who is both a physician as well as a psychotherapist, to dive into ...
07.11.2018 123: Answering Common Questions about Being a Health at Every Size Private Practice Dietitian Have you ever wondered what it's like to be in private practice? Have you wondered about how it works to be an entrepreneur who is offering a counter-cultural approach to food and nutrition? Jessi Haggerty, RD is a fellow dietitian ...
07.04.2018 122: Let Freedom Ring—Body Liberation & Emotional Freedom On this day of Independence—at least for the United States listeners—I'm sharing a podcast episode all about liberation and freedom as it relates to food, dieting and bodies. Dr. Joy Cox is a social justice advocate, using her skill set ...
06.27.2018 121: What it's Like to Feel You Don't Fit In with the Non-Diet Message Have you ever felt like you don't fit in with the non-diet message? Have you ever scratched your head about a post you saw on social media from someone who represents the intuitive eating approach, Health at Every Size, or ...
06.20.2018 120: Practicing Mindful Eating & Self-Compassion with Diabetes Can mindfulness and mindful eating work with a diabetes diagnosis? Is the compassionate approach to health—Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating paradigms—in alignment with diabetes management and treatment? Megrette Fletcher, registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator, joined me on ...
06.13.2018 119: Getting Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable Dr. Judi-Lee Webb is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist who practices in Atlanta, Georgia. She talks in this episode about the importance of representation in the field of eating disorders and talks about how she is passionate ...
06.06.2018 118: Exploring Hormonal Health Hormonal health is a trendy topic right now. But, how can we navigate figuring out what's fact versus fiction when it comes to hormones? I invited the fabulous Robyn Nohling, FNP, RD, MSN who is both a registered dietitian and ...
05.30.2018 117: Is Food Medicine? Hippocrates famously declared: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." While this sounds nice and seems harmless, there are important nuances to explore about whether or not food is medicine. There are real implications that this philosophy ...
05.23.2018 116: Letting Go of the Shoulds with Food In this episode, Jenn Hand—food and eating coach—and I talk about food rules and their sneaky tendency to create perfectionistic thinking and chaos with food. We dive deep into the practical ways you can let go of rules and "shoulds" ...
05.16.2018 115: Finding Self-Worth & Identity Beyond Food & Body Dr. Stephanie Waitt specializes in treating eating disorders at her practice, Texoma Specialty Counseling. In her work, with people she helps men and women find balance, peace, confidence, and happiness with their bodies, relationships and life. She emphasizes the importance ...
05.10.2018 114: Why Diversifying Dietetics Matters Tamara Melton, MS, RDN, CPHIMS and Deanna Belleny, MPH, RDN are the co-founders of a new non-profit, Diversify Dietetics which is a a community to attract, encourage and empower students and young professionals of color who were seeking careers in ...

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