2984: Strong is the New Beautiful, Disordered is the New Diet by Leigh Peele

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2984: Leigh Peele challenges the rebranded face of diet culture, revealing how the mantra “strong is the new beautiful” often masks the same harmful behaviors in a new form. She advocates for a compassionate approach to health that prioritizes mental well-being, intuitive choices, and strength rooted in self-respect rather than societal pressure. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://niashanks.com/strong-new-beautiful-disordered-new-diet/ Quotes to ponder: "‘Strong is the new beautiful’ quickly turned into another way for women to feel like they’re not good enough." "This new message came with a different disguise, but the same rules: restrict, control, be smaller, do more." "You can train because you love your body, not because you hate it." Episode references: Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon: https://www.amazon.com/Health-At-Every-Size-Surprising/dp/1935618253 Beauty Redefined: https://www.morethanabody.org Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch: https://www.intuitiveeating.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	This is Optimal Health Daily. Strong is the new beautiful. Disordered is the new diet by Lee Peel with neashanks.com. And I'm Dr. Neal.
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1:18.7	Strong is the new beautiful. Disordered is the new diet by Lee Peel with neashanks.com.
1:25.5	Brows any Facebook feeds or Pinterest boards of a female lifter, and you'll likely come across a phrase like, strong is the new beautiful, or I lift weights,
1:29.4	not shirts. I'm assuming that last one is a snarky nod to women's girls gone wild phases during
1:35.2	their college youth. Jen Sinkler, a popular fitness writer and bad fanny pack toter, has recently
1:41.5	released a line of t-shirts that say unapologetically strong.
1:46.1	The statement is not one of irony given that she just busted out a 305-pound sumo deadlift
1:51.6	to Roxanne's 1988 billboard topping, listen to your heart.
1:56.2	We are moving slowly but steadily in the right direction.
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