#183: How The Wellness Diet Harms Your Health with Katherine Zavodni, Intuitive Eating & HAES Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Intuitive eating & HAES dietitian Katherine Zavodni shares her own experience with chronic illness and The Wellness Diet, how it ultimately led her to embrace a Health At Every Size® approach in her work, why the popular narrative of personal responsibility in diet and wellness culture is harmful, what to do when others are stuck in diet mentality, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to stop obsessing over getting "enough" exercise.
Katherine Zavodni is a registered dietitian in private practice in Salt Lake City, UT. She is a certified eating-disorders dietitian and specializes in child and family feeding concerns, intuitive eating and Health At Every Size in addition to nutrition therapy for disordered eating. She is passionate about non-diet work and particularly about a non-diet approach to school nutrition education, and is working on developing a curriculum to teach food and nutrition within a positive, age-appropriate framework. Find her online at KZNutrition.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my intuitive eating online course. |
| 0:03.9 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:07.9 | learn more and sign up at christiharrison.com slash course. That's christiharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:17.6 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:26.2 | intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over the |
| 0:30.6 | world make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all |
| 0:35.2 | walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:39.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 183 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and today I'm |
| 0:59.1 | talking with Catherine Zavadni, a fellow health at every size and anti-diet dietitian. |
| 1:04.2 | She shares her own experience with chronic illness and the wellness diet. |
| 1:08.0 | How it ultimately led her to embrace a health at every size approach after a long and winding path. |
| 1:13.5 | Why the popular narrative of personal responsibility and diet and wellness culture is so harmful? |
| 1:18.9 | What to do when other people are stuck in diet mentality and so much more? I can't wait to share it |
| 1:23.9 | with you in just a moment. But first I'll answer this week's listener question, and before I do that, |
| 1:28.7 | I just wanted to take a moment to address some letters I got from listeners about the answer to |
| 1:33.2 | the listener question I did two weeks ago. In that answer, I said that while the 12-step model is |
| 1:39.2 | great for addressing issues with drugs and alcohol, it doesn't work for food because food addiction |
| 1:44.0 | isn't really a thing. The listener who asked the question pointed that out. That was part of the |
| 1:48.8 | question and I was answering about specifically food addiction and whether the 12-step model works for |
| 1:55.1 | the concept of food addiction, which spoiler alert is not really a thing. That's an episode 181, |
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