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FoodPsych Aug5 2019

#156 Breaking Free from Diet Culture with Joy Cox Fat Liberation Researcher

  • How to fight internalized weight stigma and body shame

  • How intersecting identities affect body image

  • Racist roots of diet culture

  • Why we need to fight racism in order to fight diet culture

  • Problems with framing body size as “obesity”

  •  Christy answers a listener question about IE and athletes

Racist Roots of Fatphobia: Text

FoodPsych May 20th 2019

#196 Diet Cultures Racist Roots with Sabrina Strings Sociologist and Author of Fearing the Black Body

  • “Fearing the Black Body” book

  • The origins of race science and how it developed into diet culture

  • How culture influences health

  • Christy answers a listener question about diet culture rules and intuitive observations about food that help us feel our best

Racist Roots of Fatphobia: Text

FoodPsych March 4 2019

#188 How to Improve Treatment for Disordered Eating with Marcella Rainonodo Eating Disorders Psychologist 

  • How to improve disorder-eating treatment for people who don’t fit diet culture's idea of what an ED “looks” like

  • How ED affects career choices

  • Why the representation of marginalized identities helps everyone

  • How fatphobia was born from racist beliefs

Racist Roots of Fatphobia: Text
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