#172: The Wellness Diet and Feeding Kids with Virginia Sole-Smith, Author of "The Eating Instinct"
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Journalist and author Virginia Sole-Smith joins us to discuss why The Wellness Diet is really diet culture in disguise, how journalists like her and Christy played unwitting roles in creating this new manifestation of diet culture, how her daughter’s experience with significant medical issues affected her relationship with food, how to help kids navigate diet-culture messaging in different stages of life, how to teach children about nutrition and health in a non-diet way, and so much more! Plus, Christy shares an excerpt from her "HAES vs. weight management" debate at FNCE (the national dietitians’ conference).
Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. She's also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Slate, and Elle, as well as a contributing editor with Parents Magazine. She lives with her husband and two daughters in the Hudson Valley. Find her online at VirginiaSoleSmith.com.
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| 0:15.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, |
| 0:19.9 | body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:27.2 | intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over the |
| 0:31.6 | world make peace with food. |
| 0:33.5 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their |
| 0:37.6 | relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:39.6 | Hey there, welcome to episode 172 of Food Psych. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and today I'm talking with Virginia Sol Smith, |
| 1:02.5 | a journalist and author of the new book The Eating Instinct, Food Culture, Body Image, |
| 1:07.2 | and Guilt in America. We talked about why the wellness diet is really |
| 1:11.0 | diet culture in disguise, how journalists like her and I both played unwitting roles in |
| 1:16.4 | creating this new manifestation of diet culture around the turn of the millennium, |
| 1:20.3 | how her daughter's experience with significant medical trauma affected her relationship with food, |
| 1:25.1 | how to help kids navigate diet culture messaging in different stages of life, |
| 1:28.9 | and so much more. It's a great episode. I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment, |
| 1:32.8 | but first just a quick trigger warning for Virginia's book. It is beautifully written. I really |
| 1:37.6 | love reading it and it advances the conversation about our national relationship with food and |
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