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which I co-authored with therapist Judith Mats to help you end chronic dieting and find joy in eating.

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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 whether most people really need to go gluten-free,

and how to tell when cutting out gluten is actually a disordered eating behavior.

This is a super important question because wellness culture is constantly pushing gluten-free diets

for one reason or another, so most people have probably considered cutting out gluten at some point.

In this answer, I'll explain why it's not likely to help and why it may actually cause harm.

Before I do, just a couple of quick announcements. This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by the

Making Peace with Food Card Dec, which I co-authored with therapist Judith Mats to help you

end chronic dieting and find joy in eating. The Dec contains 59 anti-diet strategies to help you

break free from the diet mindset and find peace with food. Use these cards to help support you in

rejecting diet culture, honoring your hunger, finding self-compassion, navigating emotional eating,

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