This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my book, Anti-Diet.

Reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating,

which is available wherever books are sold. Just go to ChristyHarrison.com-slaoshbook to order it now.

That's ChristyHarrison.com-slaoshbook. 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 whether eating sugar is bad for

your health, with a deep dive into what the research really says about sugar. This is going to be

a longer episode than many of the others this season, because I think this is a super important

topic that I get asked about all the time in this cultural moment where diet and wellness

culture are so stigmatizing toward sugar. As you'll hear shortly, there's really no good scientific

basis for that anti-sugar stance. And before I answer just a couple of quick announcements,

this episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my first book, Anti-Diet, Re-Claim Your Time,

Money, Well-being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is available wherever books are sold.

It's a great companion to this podcast because it goes into lots of depth about diet culture and

the ways that it harms us, our time, money, well-being, and happiness, with tons of scientific

references and resources to help you make the anti-diet case to yourself and the other people in

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