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  • Veronica's experience as a fat, black dietitian 

  • Weight stigma she has faced as a dietitian

  • The importance of representation and community in body liberation

  • Social justice

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RD Real Talk April 3, 2020

142: Realities of Being a Fat Black Dietitian with Veronica Garnett

  • Veronica's experience as a fat, black dietitian 

  • Weight stigma she has faced as a dietitian

  • The need for the dietitians of color

  • Letting dietitians of color lead, especially in their own communities

  • Social justice

  • Community nutrition 

  • Culinary 

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  • Why we need more radical body love

  • How to deal with weight gain and weight stigma while learning IE

  • What mainstream body positivity gets wrong

  • Why understanding oppression and intersecting identities is the key to creating a body-positive world

  • How to navigate diet culture as a body-acceptance advocate

  • How to begin to untangle internalized oppression

  • Christy answers a question about how to tell the difference between self-care and orthorexic thinking

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  • Weight stigma faced by dietitians of size 

  • The need for the dietitians of color

  • Letting dietitians of color lead, especially in their own communities

  • Social justice

  •  Community nutrition 

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  • Dalina Soto RD

  • How Dalina is bringing IE to the Latinx community

  • Being culturally sensitive to other cultures when providing IE/non-diet counseling

  • Her experience identifying at HAES ® RD

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  • Kimmie Singh, RD

  • Kimmie’s experience with PCOS

  • Fatphobia and racism in healthcare and dietetics

  • How changing her beauty ideal helped with ED recovery

  • Why dietitians need to talk about fatphobia with clients

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  • Christyna Johnson, RD

  • Adapting IE for different cultures

  • How micro-aggressions contribute to eating disorder behavior

  • Fatphobia and Eurocentrism in dietetics

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