#312: Health Anxiety, Wellness Misinformation, and Media Literacy with Casey Gueren
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Food Psych Programs, Inc.
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Casey Gueren, award-winning health journalist and author of It's Probably Nothing, joins us to discuss how to deal with health anxiety, strategies for recognizing and avoiding wellness misinformation online, how to develop greater media literacy, and more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my upcoming book, The Wellness Trap. |
| 0:04.4 | Break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses, and find your true well-being, |
| 0:10.4 | which is available for pre-order now. Just go to ChristyHarrison.com, |
| 0:14.8 | slash the Wellness Trap, to learn more, and pre-order for its April 2023 release. |
| 0:20.2 | That's ChristyHarrison.com slash the Wellness Trap. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture, |
| 0:28.7 | and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating |
| 0:38.2 | counselor, journalist, and author of the book's anti-diet, which is available now wherever books |
| 0:43.4 | are sold, and the Wellness Trap, which will be out in early 2023. And by the way, on this show, |
| 0:49.8 | I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor |
| 0:55.0 | swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I have another interview to share with you. I'm |
| 1:31.8 | slowly getting back into the swing of things doing interview episodes, which I did for our first |
| 1:37.0 | eight or nine years of this podcast, and had taken a break doing solo episodes this season, but |
| 1:42.5 | really excited to be sharing some interviews with you again. And today is a really, really good one. |
| 1:47.2 | My guest is Casey Garin, award-winning health journalist and author of It's Probably Nothing. |
| 1:53.1 | And we discuss how to deal with health anxiety, strategies for recognizing and avoiding wellness |
| 1:59.4 | misinformation online, how to develop greater media literacy, and deal with fear-mongering nutrition |
| 2:05.8 | headlines, and so much more. I'm really excited to share this conversation with you in just a moment, |
| 2:11.2 | but before I do, just a few quick announcements. This episode is brought to you by my upcoming book, |
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