#266: Steering Clear of Diet Culture's New Year's Traps, and Managing Chronic Illness Without Disordered Eating with Aleta Storch, Anti-Diet Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Anti-diet dietitian and mental health counselor Aleta Storch joins us to discuss diet culture in the ADHD and autoimmune disorder communities, her and Christy’s experiences of living with chronic illness, how social determinants of health are often ignored or twisted to uphold diet culture, wellness culture and its stigmatization of medication, and so much more. Plus, in “Ask Food Psych,” Christy answers a listener question about how to tell whether something is a diet in disguise and how to avoid common diet-culture traps—in the New Year and beyond.
Aleta (she/her) is a Registered Dietitian, Mental Health Counselor, Body Trust Provider, and owner of Wise Heart Nutrition based out of Seattle, WA. She offers weight-inclusive, anti-diet care to support folx in the process of letting go of diet culture, and finding pleasure, joy, and freedom with food and body. She specializes in working with both ADHD and autoimmune conditions. Find her online at WiseHeartNutrition.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my book, Anti-Diet, Reclaim Your Time, |
| 0:05.6 | Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is available wherever books |
| 0:10.3 | are sold. |
| 0:11.3 | Just go to ChristyHarrison.com slashbook to order it now. |
| 0:15.6 | That's ChristyHarrison.com slashbook. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:25.2 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified |
| 0:32.0 | Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Author of Anti-Diet. |
| 0:36.0 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds about |
| 0:41.0 | their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:44.2 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie |
| 0:48.4 | numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion |
| 0:53.3 | is advised. |
| 1:19.9 | Hey there, welcome to episode 266 of Food Psych, the first one of 2021. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with Anti-Diet Dietitian and Mental |
| 1:30.7 | Health Counselor Alita Stork about diet culture in the ADHD and autoimmune disorder communities. |
| 1:38.2 | Her and my experiences of living with chronic illness. |
| 1:42.0 | How social determinants of health are often ignored or twisted to uphold diet culture, |
| 1:48.0 | wellness culture, and its stigmatization of medication, and so much more. |
| 1:53.2 | Alita actually interned for me a few years ago, and it was so great to reconnect with her |
| 1:58.0 | and dive deep on these issues. |
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