#257: Body Image Beyond Weight, How to Push Back Against Body Ideals, and Unintentional Restriction with Nadia Craddock, Body-Image Researcher
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Body-image researcher Nadia Craddock joins us to discuss body image beyond body size and weight, her experiences in inpatient eating-disorder treatment, colorism and its harmful effects on body image, how to push back against body ideals, and so much more. Plus, in Ask Food Psych, Christy answers a listener question about how to talk to a doctor who put you on an elimination diet that triggered an eating disorder. TW: This episode includes descriptions of Nadia’s traumatic experiences in long-term inpatient eating-disorder treatment, including mentions of self-harm. If this subject matter is likely to be troubling to you, please listen to the introduction for Christy's recommendation of sections to skip.
Nadia Craddock is a body-image researcher. She is Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research, at the University of the West of England in Bristol and is a member of the Dove Self Esteem Project partnership team. Nadia is currently leading the development and evaluation of a school-based body image intervention in Indonesia in collaboration with UNICEF Indonesia, the Dove Self Esteem Project, researchers at the University of Indonesia and the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.
Nadia co-hosts the Centre for Appearance Research's podcast, 'Appearance Matters' with Jade Parnell and co-costs 'The Body Protest' podcast with Honey Ross. Find her online at people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/NadiaCraddock.
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host christieherison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:33.6 | an author of the book, anti-diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
| 0:40.0 | which is available now wherever books are sold. |
| 0:43.0 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds, |
| 0:47.5 | but their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:51.0 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:56.5 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 257 of Food Psych. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm your host christieherison and today I'm talking with body image researcher Nadia Kratik |
| 1:36.5 | about body image beyond just body size and weight, her experiences in inpatient eating disorder treatment, |
| 1:43.5 | colorism, and its harmful effects on body image, how to push back against body ideals and so much more. |
| 1:51.5 | I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment. |
| 1:54.5 | It's a really good one, but just a trigger warning slash content warning for the fact that |
| 1:59.5 | Nadia describes some pretty traumatic experiences she had in long term inpatient treatment for anorexia. |
| 2:05.5 | I think it's really important to share these stories to help raise awareness and prevent these things from happening to others, |
| 2:12.5 | but I know that if you're deep in an eating disorder yourself, |
| 2:15.5 | or if you're in that place of disorder eating of feeling like your quote-unquote not sick enough to deserve help, |
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