#293: Jessica Setnick, RD – Orthorexia: Positive vs. Pathological Nutrition

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Setnick background in human behavior (she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from The University of Pennsylvania) combined with her expertise in dysfunctional and disordered eating (she is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree and writes books and articles about eating disorders).

A Certified Eating Disorder Dietitian and CEDRD Supervisor, Jessica is the author of The Eating Disorder Clinical Pocket Guide and Eating Disorders Boot Camp. She is a co-founder of IFEDD, the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians.

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0:00.0	Are their behaviors positive, supportive to their life?
0:19.0	Are they neutral? Are they harmful? Are they destructive?
0:21.6	Or are they threatening that person's life?
0:23.6	And so that to me is the continuum where it's really not relevant what the behaviors are.
0:28.6	A behavior can be a weapon or a tool, right?
0:31.6	Focus on eating healthy is by no means orthorexia.
0:38.3	The whole kernel at the root of orthorexia is the pursuit of health through eating has become unhealth. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you conversations about nutritional and health science. And I am your
1:12.3	host, as always, Danny Lennon. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen into the podcast.
1:18.6	And we're at episode 293 of the show today. Today I'm going to be talking with Jessica Settnick,
1:26.5	who is a registered dietitian, as well as holding a master's degree in nutrition, with her focused area being dysfunctional and disordered eating.
1:36.2	And in addition to her experience as a practitioner, in more recent times she is focused on providing educational content for other dietitians and practitioners and
1:47.8	healthcare professionals in the field of dysfunctional eating and eating disorders. We're going to focus
1:56.0	on a couple of topics throughout this episode. One primarily we're going to look at is orthorexia.
2:02.6	And this is something that I'm sure the term may have came across your radar in different
2:07.1	places. But I think sometimes there's misconceptions about. So hopefully we'll be able to dig in
2:12.0	and navigate some of that in a useful manner. The show notes this episode are going to be at
2:17.3	sigmautrition.com
2:18.7	slash episode 293. So if you go there, as always, you'll be able to get resources related to
2:24.6	this particular episode. Just as a bit of fair warning before this particular episode,
2:30.6	some of the sound at certain points is not at the usual standard that we have.
2:36.0	There was a bit of a few technical issues in the recording and production of this particular file.
2:43.0	So you may notice some drop-in sound and some slight deviations of sound quality, which are not usually present. So hopefully that doesn't
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