In Episode 5 Lisa and Diana chat with Oona Hanson, a parent coach, about helping children navigate the rough seas of body image and healthy food relationships in our diet-centric culture.

What does a person mean when they say “I feel fat?” We share insight from women with different body types on what this phrase means to them and the ways in which it is often shorthand for negative emotions and feelings. 

We explore what it means to look like a “real woman,” a phrase that has become ubiquitous in our society. Also: women policing other women’s bodies on social media and how our eating disorders and body image affect our relationships with other women. 

From Cindy Crawford’s sexy Pepsi commercial to Snackwell’s fat-free cookies and “guilt-free” nonfat yogurt, we explore how guilt, shame, fear, virtue signaling, and the hyper sexualization of women in diet and lifestyle advertising affect women. Plus: the trope of the woman who eats anything she wants and stays skinny and the takeover of health and nutrition elitism.  

Food, Morality & Mixed Messages.

In this first episode of The Hunger Trap Podcast, Diana and Lisa chat about a classist New York Times political fridge quiz, the screwed-up messages we receive about food and weight, and the moral connections we associate with food.