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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

#157: The Truth About Weight Science with Fiona Willer, Non-Diet Dietitian and Health At Every Size Researcher

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Non-diet dietitian Fiona Willer joins to discuss why we need to be critical of current weight research, how the Health at Every Size paradigm can go viral, why weight-inclusive work is a life-saving endeavor, how fatphobia and weight stigma prevent compassionate medical care for people in larger bodies, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to adjust to a different culture’s eating times when studying abroad.

Fiona Willer, AdvAPD, is the author of 'The Non-Diet Approach Guidebook for Dietitians', and co-author of 'The Non-Diet Approach Guidebook for Psychologists and Counsellors'. Her business, Health, Not Diets, provides online and face-to-face training and workshops for health professionals in the non-diet approach. Fiona's background includes clinical dietetics, private practice and university lecturing in nutrition and dietetics. She is currently conducting PhD research into HAES® use in dietetics. As an advocacy leader in this field, she represented Australia in contributing to the HAES graduate curriculum for the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH), and has been an invited speaker at DAA, SDA, ANZAED, DC events and presented at a variety of academic conferences Fiona is a proud member of the DAA, current Vice-President International of ASDAH, and executive member of HAES Australia. Find her online at FionaWiller.com, UnpackingWeightScience.com, and HealthNotDiets.com.

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0:00.0

This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my intuitive eating online course in

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community.

0:05.0

If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim life at Stole From You, learn

0:08.9

more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course.

0:12.3

That's christieharrison.com slash course.

0:15.2

Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation,

0:20.4

and taking down diet culture.

0:22.5

I'm your host, Christi Harrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified

0:26.4

intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over

0:30.4

the world make peace with food.

0:32.4

Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their

0:36.2

relationships with food and their bodies.

0:38.4

I remember I was teething, little gums bleeding, cry day evening, it was all about eating.

0:47.4

When I became a teen, it was all about beef and now I'm ready for the world.

0:51.4

Try and sink my teeth in.

0:53.4

Stacking it.

0:54.4

Welcome to episode 157 of Food Psych.

0:57.2

I'm your host, Christi Harrison and today I'm talking with fellow anti-diet dietitian

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Fiona Willer, all about why we need to be critical of the vast majority of weight research,

1:06.5

how the health at every size paradigm can go viral, why weight inclusive work is such

1:11.1

a life saving endeavor and so much more.

1:13.8

I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment, but first I'll answer

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