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Nutrition Matters Podcast

103: The Slippery Slope of Wellness Culture

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Pursuing health and well-being is completely natural and understandable. It can be incredibly positive and life-enhancing. The trouble is, though, that true wellness has been reduced down to lists of foods to eat and foods to avoid, packaged up and commodified and sold back to us by the dieting industry. What can start out as a completely earnest and well-intentioned pursuit of health, can turn into problematic and disordered eating, all thanks to the many messages about health we're wading through all day every day. And, ironically, sometimes our pursuit of health can actually lead to poorer health outcomes, not better. This is especially true and especially tricky in our diet and thin-obsessed culture.

Colleen Reichmann, PhD and Paige chat about the slippery slope of wellness culture. They discuss how our earnest attempts at wanting to feel good and take great care of ourselves can turn into more than that, and in the worst cases, full blown eating disorders. Listen in to learn how to be a critical consumer of wellness and health advice and how to stay grounded and truly well in the process.

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige and I'm your host and I'm just so

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grateful that you are tuning in today. So today I'm

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sharing a conversation I had with Colleen Reikman, who is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia,

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Williamsburg, Virginia. And she and I today sit down and talk about the slippery slope that is wellness culture.

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And we really do hopefully a good job of thoroughly exploring this issue because I know that

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for anyone who might be new to intuitive eating or to kind of the non-diet way, this might be a little bit confusing at first, this idea of like,

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wait, what's wrong with the idea of wellness? So if you're confused by the title or if you're

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intrigued by the title, but not sure where this is going, just know that we really do explore

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this hopefully pretty thoroughly. And I'm hoping by the end you understand where we're

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coming from with this and you know this this episode is based on a really fantastic article

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that Colleen wrote for her blog so I'm going to link to that and we talk about this

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