#184: Why Diet Culture Is a Form of Oppression with Virgie Tovar, Fat-Discrimination and Body-Image Expert

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Activist and author Virgie Tovar returns! We discuss her newest book, You Have the Right to Remain Fat; the intersections between fatphobia, sexism, and diet culture; how dieting is a form of oppression and assimilation; the influence of American history on diet culture; body liberation as a collective movement; and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to navigate the dating pool while working to accept your body and maintain your feminist values.

Virgie Tovar is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat and is one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help women who want to break up with diet culture. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She pens a weekly column called Take the Cake on Ravishly.com and is a contributor for Forbes.com. Tovar has been featured by Tech Insider, The New York Times, NPR, Al Jazeera and Self. Find her online at VirgieTovar.com.

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0:00.0	This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by the Body Trust Provider Certification Training
0:04.1	Program.
0:05.1	I know many of you listening are helping professionals who want to offer an alternative to the traditional
0:09.4	weight-focused paradigm, so consider applying to become a certified body trust provider.
0:14.4	This training program led by Hillary Canaver and Dana Sturdavan of Be Nourished, both of
0:18.5	whom have been guests on the podcast in the past, is a trauma-informed, scientifically
0:22.8	grounded model of care that's informed by shame-resilience theory, social justice movements, and
0:28.3	self-compassion while working from the principles of intuitive eating and health at every
0:32.3	size.
0:33.3	Learn more and apply for the program at beenourished.org.
0:36.8	That's be-e-n-o-u-r-i-s-h-e-d.org.
0:41.1	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation,
0:46.3	and taking down diet culture.
0:48.2	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet, registered dietitian and certified
0:52.2	intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over
0:56.3	the world make peace with food.
0:58.5	Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their
1:02.3	relationships with food and their bodies.
1:26.3	Hey there, welcome to episode 184 of Food Psych.
1:33.2	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and you just heard our new theme song, Woohoo!
1:37.5	It was written especially for us by Carolyn Penny Packer-Riggs, a great composer who also
1:41.8	did theme songs for several of my podcast-er friends, including Katie Dellbout of Let It Out,
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