129: When It's About the Food and It's Not About the Food

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Laura Thomas, PhD explores the concepts of weight stigma and weight bias in detail, and discuss how sometimes it's about the food but it's not about the food. Laura shares about the importance of not being complacent about how we communicate the science of weight and nutrition. We talk about the frequently-cited statistic that 95% of diets fail, and explore the nuance of the evidence. She gives an inside look into the research world including research bias and observation bias and gives some tips for critically consuming the science and the media around nutrition, weight and health.

Laura also shares about her new book coming out in January (in the UK only) called Just Eat It so be sure to follow her on social media to hear about the release of the book near you!

Links mentioned:

Laura's website: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/
Laura's podcast: Don't Salt My Game
British Medical Journal: Challenging Assumptions in Obesity Research (with the podcast Laura mentioned as well)
World Health Organization report about weight bias
Episode 113: Exploring Weight Stigma
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0:00.0	You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist.
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1:01.4	Hi there. Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast and thanks so much as always for joining me.
1:07.0	I'm so excited to bring you this episode with Laura Thomas, who is such an incredible force for good
1:14.2	when it comes to the world of nutrition, intuitive eating, health at every size. She's fantastic.
1:20.0	If you like research, if you like kind of getting into the nitty gritty, she's your girl.
1:24.9	And so I am so excited to bring you this episode with her where we talk about
1:29.8	this one was kind of a hard one to title to be honest because we talk about how really sometimes
1:37.3	this is about the food but it's not about the food at all and sometimes um you know we need to have
1:43.4	conversations about things that might seem peripheral
1:46.3	to food in order to really get to the root of what's going on for a struggle, for a person who's
1:51.9	struggling with food. So in this episode, Laura and I talk about eating disorder prevention. We talk a
1:57.6	little bit about research, actually. We talk about that 95% statistic that people throw
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