#238: Appetite and COVID-19, Plus How Diet Culture Influences the Nutrition and Dietetics Field with Taylor Chan, Anti-Diet Dietitian and Illustrator
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Fellow anti-diet dietitian Taylor Chan joins us to discuss “fence-straddling” between intuitive eating and traditional dietetics (and eventually jumping over to the other side), how her desire to be a “good dietitian” pulled her further into diet culture, the privilege inherent in diet culture’s version of nutrition, the nuances that make intuitive eating an inclusive practice, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to handle loss of appetite during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Taylor Chan is a Registered Dietitian and Personal Trainer in Baltimore, Maryland. She brings an Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size lens to her current role in school food service, and also has a virtual private practice where she helps clients take the fear out of food and eat to support all aspects of their well-being. In her spare time, you can find her hiking, traveling, eating, and creating doodles that dismantle diet culture. Find her online at FoodAndFearless.com.
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| 0:15.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
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| 0:23.4 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified |
| 0:28.6 | Intuitive Eating Counselor, and author of the book Anti-Diet. |
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| 0:36.9 | toward peace with food and their bodies. |
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| 1:15.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 238 of Food Psych. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with fellow anti-diet dietitian |
| 1:23.4 | Taylor Chan about fence straddling between intuitive eating and traditional dietetics, |
| 1:29.5 | and eventually jumping over to the other side of the fence. |
| 1:32.4 | How her desire to be a quote-unquote good dietitian pulled her further into diet culture, |
| 1:38.1 | the privilege inherent in diet culture's version of nutrition, the nuances that make |
| 1:42.8 | intuitive eating and inclusive practice, and so much more. |
| 1:47.2 | Can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment, and just a quick note |
| 1:50.7 | on this one that in the interview I say that Ellen Sadder's model is called attuned |
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