The word 'healthy' gets thrown around all the time, but what does it actually mean? And, is the concept actually helpful for us?
175: Exploring what Healthy Really Means and Reclaiming it for Good
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Meghan and Paige unpack these ideas and explore ways we all can reclaim the true meaning of health for good in our lives.
Meghan Kacmarcik is a registered dietitian and nutrition therapist based in Boston, MA. She works locally in the Boston area and is the owner of New Moon Nutrition, a virtual practice where she helps people unlearn diet culture, recover from disordered eating, and heal their relationships with food and their body. Her practice is rooted in Health at Every Size and she uses intuitive eating as a guidepost in all her work. In addition to dismantling diet culture and fighting for a more weight-inclusive world, she enjoys reading good books, drinking good coffee, and snuggling with her cat Potato.
Links mentioned:
- Meghan's website: https://newmoonrd.com/
- Positive Nutrition® Academy: online courses and webinars
- Positive Nutrition Blog
- Follow Paige on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist. |
| 0:06.7 | Nutrition Matters podcast explores how to approach food and your body in a whole new way. |
| 0:12.2 | I interview people who share stories and expertise in rejecting diet culture, making peace with food, |
| 0:17.9 | and discovering a more positive, realistic, and sustainable approach |
| 0:22.0 | to health and well-being. I'm Paige Smathers, registered dietitian, nutritionist, and owner of |
| 0:27.9 | positive nutrition, an in-person nutrition therapy practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. I offer |
| 0:33.6 | free resources, including this podcast, a blog, and post on social media. |
| 0:39.0 | If you're local to Salt Lake City, check out our services and availability for appointments |
| 0:43.0 | and keep your eyes out for in-person groups on mindfulness, intuitive eating, body image |
| 0:48.4 | resilience, and more. Go to positive-nutrition.com and hit subscribe if you'd like to keep in touch. |
| 0:55.3 | I also offer online courses covering topics like the science of nutrition, mindfulness, |
| 1:00.4 | and healing your relationship with food. Check those out at positive dash nutrition.com |
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| 1:17.0 | You can also find me on Instagram or Facebook if you'd like to have a little more food for |
| 1:20.6 | thought at Paige Smathers-R-D. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 1:25.0 | Hi, everyone. This is Paige. Welcome back to another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast, and thanks so much for listening. Hi, everyone. This is Paige. Welcome back to another episode of Nutrition Matters |
| 1:29.3 | podcast and thanks so much for joining me. I'm excited to bring you this conversation all about |
| 1:35.9 | the word health with my friend Megan Kazmarcic. I hope I said that last name right, Megan. I'm trying. |
| 1:44.0 | We thought that it would be really helpful as two dietitians to kind of sit down and explore this word that gets thrown around all the time, this word healthy. |
| 1:54.7 | And really talk about how it affects us, how it either helps or doesn't help help us and kind of unpacking it to the degree |
| 2:03.9 | that we can look at it with some clarity and understand how it might be able to help us and |
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