#217: The Life Thief, Part 3: How Diet Culture Steals Your Well-Being with Kendrin Sonneville, Eating-Disorders and Weight Stigma Researcher
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Weight-stigma and eating-disorders researcher Kendrin Sonneville joins us to discuss how diet culture steals our well-being by perpetuating fatphobia, why even seemingly subtle forms of weight stigma can lead to poorer health, the role of science in the paradigm shift toward Health At Every Size®, why weight stigma is more than just a health issue, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about intuitive eating and fears around weight loss.
Kendrin Sonneville, ScD, RD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Sonneville also holds an adjunct appointment at Harvard Medical School and is a Collaborating Mentor for the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) at Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Sonneville is a registered dietitian, behavioral scientist, and public health researcher whose research focuses on the prevention of eating disorders among children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Sonneville uses a weight-inclusive framework to study how to promote health and well-being without inadvertently increasing body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and weight stigma. Find her online at KendrinS.sph.umich.edu.
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| 0:25.6 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:29.1 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, |
| 0:37.8 | certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the forthcoming book, Anti-Diet, |
| 0:42.9 | reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
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| 0:49.5 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life |
| 0:53.8 | about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:56.5 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 1:01.7 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language. |
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| 1:27.0 | Food food. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 217 of Food Psych. |
| 1:35.8 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with Weight Stigma |
| 1:39.4 | and Eating Disorder Researcher, Kendra and Sonneville. |
| 1:42.8 | In this third episode of our four-part series on diet culture as a life thief, |
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