#268: Navigating Boundaries, Diet Talk, and Beauty Standards in Latinx Communities and Western Culture with Dalina Soto of Your Latina Nutritionist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Anti-diet dietitian Dalina Soto joins us to discuss navigating boundaries, diet talk, and beauty standards in Latinx communities and Western culture; the lack of diversity in dietetics; what she learned in her first jobs as a Spanish-speaking dietitian; her relationship with her postpartum body; and so much more. Plus, in “Ask Food Psych,” Christy answers a listener question about how to find online movement/fitness programs that align with the anti-diet approach.
Dalina Soto, MA, RD, LDN, is founder and bilingual registered dietitian at Your Latina Nutritionist. Throughout her career, Dalina has worked in the Latinx community as one of the only Spanish-speaking RDs helping clients ditch diets. Through Instagram she has been able to expand and reach Latinas all over the world and has helped them ditch the diets and practice body respect. Find her online at YourLatinaNutrition.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, |
| 0:05.4 | Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is available wherever books are sold. |
| 0:11.0 | Just go to ChristyHarrison.com slashbook to order it now. |
| 0:15.2 | That's ChristyHarrison.com slashbook. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, |
| 0:33.6 | and Author of Anti-Diet. |
| 0:35.8 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds about their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:43.9 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:49.2 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:58.3 | And a dying evolution, if you're held bad at every size, |
| 1:06.3 | save the food you want for your own sake. |
| 1:19.6 | Hey there, welcome to episode 268 of Food Psych. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and wow, what a week it's been since the last time I recorded one of these intros for you. |
| 1:31.5 | I do these a couple weeks ahead, so I didn't include anything about the insurrection in the last one, but oh my god. |
| 1:39.9 | I hope you're doing okay, I hope you're taking care of yourself and any anxiety, and trauma stuff that's getting stirred up for you. |
| 1:47.6 | I know I definitely had some of those reactions myself. |
| 1:51.3 | I'm not going to talk about it at length here because we've got a great show for you, and I want to get to that. |
| 1:55.5 | But if you want to know more about my response and read a whole piece of writing that I did on this, you can go to my blog, |
| 2:02.4 | Christy Harrison dot com slash blog, and we'll link to the post in the show notes for this episode as well. |
| 2:08.4 | I'm still processing, and that piece I think is the best summation of where I'm at with all of this, and my position on the violence, which of course I condemn and condemn the right wing stream is thinking that led there, |
| 2:22.8 | but there's lots more in that post, so you can check that out if you're curious. |
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