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Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture

and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach.

I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor,

journalist, and author of the book's Anti-Diet, which is available now,

and the wellness trap, which will be out in early 2023.

And by the way, on this show, I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers,

but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised.

Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych.

I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm going to be answering an audience question

about how the anti-diet approach squares with eating to manage a health condition,

commonly called a quote unquote medically necessary diet, although I don't love that language,

and I'll explain why shortly.

This is a really important topic because in diet and wellness culture,

there are so many dubious diagnoses and conditions that people claim

require you to cut out lots of different foods without good evidence to back it up.

So we'll talk about how to confirm that you really do have a condition that requires you to change your menu.

Before I answer just a couple of quick announcements, this podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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