Nutrition Matters Podcast

By Paige Smathers, RDN, CD

Education Kids & Family

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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182: Goodbye — context, tha...

11.25.2020

After 5 1/2 years, I'm ending the podcast! It's been so rewarding to put this podcast on, but the time has come for me to move on. This last episode of the podcast gives context for this decision and hopefully ...

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11.25.2020 182: Goodbye — context, thank you, parting advice and some social commentary After 5 1/2 years, I'm ending the podcast! It's been so rewarding to put this podcast on, but the time has come for me to move on. This last episode of the podcast gives context for this decision and hopefully ...
08.31.2020 181: Intuitive Exercise & How to Train Happy "If exercise had zero impact on your weight and appearance, would you still work out? If you answered 'yes', would you work out differently from how you do now? Would you do more or less?" These are the first lines ...
08.17.2020 180: Eating Disorders & the Higher Level of Care In this episode, Paige and Amy Hanneke discuss the higher level of care for eating disorders: how to know if it's the right choice for your treatment, what to expect, how to get the most out of the experience and ...
08.03.2020 179: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch on Intuitive Eating Fourth Edition Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch, authors of the revolutionary book Intuitive Eating, join Paige to talk about the newest edition of the book. Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., is an award-winning registered dietitian with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, ...
07.20.2020 178: Rest, Play, Humor & our Health Shana Spence joins Paige to talk about the importance of challenging productivity beliefs and embracing rest, play, creativity and humor as we engage in our health and wellbeing. Shana is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist based in New York in the ...
07.06.2020 177: What to do if You're Afraid of Food Amee Severson joins Paige to talk about her own history of fearing food and explains how she worked through it. Amee is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist whose work focuses on body positivity, fat acceptance, and intuitive eating through a social ...
06.22.2020 176: Menopause—Weight, Health, Changing Bodies and Eating Disorders in ages 50+ Erica Leon is a registered dietitian who is passionate about speaking up about the changes that occur with bodies, weight, food, relationships, etc. during menopause. She and Paige explore the science behind menopause and body changes and talk about how ...
06.08.2020 175: Exploring what Healthy Really Means and Reclaiming it for Good The word 'healthy' gets thrown around all the time, but what does it actually mean? And, is the concept actually helpful for us? Meghan and Paige unpack these ideas and explore ways we all can reclaim the true meaning of ...
05.25.2020 174: Pregnancy & Postpartum Body Image Catie Lynch Shockey, LCSW is an eating disorder and body image therapist located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is a licensed clinical social worker who graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South and Tulane University. After recovering from her own ...
05.11.2020 173: Finding Your Authentic Voice in Challenging Diet Culture Cara Harbstreet is a Kansas City based Intuitive Eating Registered Dietitian and nationally-recognized food and nutrition expert, author, and consultant. In 2016, Cara founded her private practice and began focusing on sports nutrition, intuitive eating, and applying the Health At ...
04.27.2020 172: Medical Nutrition Therapy & Intuitive Eating: How Nutrition Improves with Connection & Kindness Click here to support the podcast and receive 3 extra episodes per month! Kirsten Ackerman is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Registered Dietitian and proud anti-diet advocate. During the day, Kirsten works as a renal dietitian, helping patients with end ...
04.13.2020 171: Fat-Phobia in the Eating Disorder Treatment Community Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in New York City. She has a passion for helping people feel their best in their body at any size and specializes in the treatment of disordered eating, eating disorders, and ...
04.06.2020 170: Navigating our New Normal—Adjusting to Social Distancing Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format ...
03.31.2020 169: Ditching Diets and Practicing Body Acceptance in the Latina Community Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format ...
03.23.2020 Coronavirus Thoughts — What a Year this Week has Been Hi Friends! I'm coming to you again this week as a human (read: not an expert) with some thoughts about the coronavirus pandemic. Many of you reached out last week letting me know last week's check-in was helpful so I ...
03.16.2020 168: The Role of Intention, Flexibility, & Self-Compassion in Gentle Nutrition Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format ...
03.15.2020 We're in this Together — Mindset & Practical Ideas for Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic Hi Friends, I want to use my platform for good. I wanted to provide some thoughts and resources during this time. In this episode, provide some mindset ideas as well as practical thoughts for navigating working from home while also ...
03.02.2020 167: Intuitive Eating and Weight-Inclusive Care in Black Communities Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and you'll get exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, nutrition lessons and guided meditations. In this episode, Paige interviews Ayana Habtemariam about her passion and commitment for increasing awareness of intuitive eating ...
02.17.2020 166: Shame Spirals & Wounded Healers Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format ...
02.03.2020 165: What One Doctor Wished Every Doctor Knew About their Patients with Eating Disorders Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format ...
01.20.2020 164: How the Binge-Restrict Pattern Shows Up in Other Areas of Life Become a supporter of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A; episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format ...
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 ...

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