#333: Blood-Sugar Myths and Intuitive Eating for Diabetes with Janice Dada

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Food Psych Programs, Inc.

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dietitian and diabetes educator Janice Dada joins us to discuss why there’s so much stigma and blame on people with diabetes, the wellness-culture belief that people can “reverse diabetes” by restricting foods and taking a bunch of supplements, why people don’t “give themselves diabetes” by eating too much sugar, the myth that people with diabetes can’t eat sugar or carbs, her new book on intuitive eating for diabetes, and more. Behind the paywall, we get into the myths about diabetes and body size, the harms of trying to lose weight with diabetes, issues with the “prediabetes” label, the GLP-1 craze, and how to practice intuitive eating with diabetes. This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.

Paid subscribers can hear the extended interview, and the first half is available to all listeners. To upgrade to paid, go to rethinkingwellness.substack.com.

Janice Dada is a weight-inclusive registered dietitian with a private practice in Newport Beach, CA. She is a certified intuitive eating counselor, certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES), and certified eating disorders specialist (CEDS). She is passionate about simplifying and destigmatizing the nutrition- and weight-based discourse around diabetes. Intuitive Eating for Diabetes: The No Shame, No Blame, Non-Diet Approach to Managing Your Blood Sugar is her first book.

Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod.

If you’re ready to break free from diet culture and make peace with food, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.

For more critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, check out Christy’s Rethinking Wellness podcast! You can also sign up to get it in your inbox every week at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.

Ask a question about diet and wellness culture, disordered-eating recovery, and the anti-diet approach for a chance to have it answered on Rethinking Wellness. You can also subscribe to the Food Psych Weekly newsletter to check out previous answers!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture and answering your
0:05.0	questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. I'm your host Christy Harrison,
0:09.7	and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, journalist and author of the
0:14.3	book's anti-diet, the wellness trap, and the new emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating,
0:19.7	and body image workbook,
0:25.3	which are all available wherever you get your books or at Christy Harrison.com slash books.
0:28.1	That's Christyharrison.com slash books.
0:32.8	And by the way, on this show, we avoid diet culture details like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. to my food site.
1:00.8	Hey there, welcome to food psych. Today's episode is cross-posted from my other podcast,
1:08.3	Rethinking Wellness, and I think you're going to love it. I'm talking
1:11.3	with dietitian and diabetes educator Janice Dada, who has a new book coming out soon called
1:16.2	Intuitive Eating for Diabetes, about why there's so much stigma and blame on people with diabetes,
1:21.8	the wellness culture belief that people can quote unquote reverse diabetes by restricting foods
1:26.5	and taking a bunch of supplements, why people don't give themselves diabetes by restricting foods and taking a bunch of supplements,
1:28.5	white people don't give themselves diabetes by eating too much sugar, the myth that people with
1:33.1	diabetes can't eat sugar or carbs at all, and more. Behind the paywall, we get into the myths about
1:38.7	diabetes and weight, the harms of trying to lose weight with diabetes, issues with the quote-unquote
1:43.9	pre-diabetes label,
1:45.5	the GLP1 craze, and how to practice intuitive eating with diabetes. So it's a great conversation,
1:51.2	and I cannot wait to share it with you. First, I want to let you know about my latest book,
1:55.1	the emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating, and body image workbook, which I co-authored
2:00.2	with therapists and friends of the pod, which I co-authored with therapists and
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