467: How To Leave Toxic Diet Culture Behind And Focus On Optimal Health and a Balanced Life with Danny Lennon
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Toxic diet culture worships thinness and equates it with being healthy. In today's episode, performance nutritionist and evidence-based educator Danny Lennon talks about how the idea of "healthy eating" can be harmful, how diets became the new religion, and how to focus on optimal health instead. Listen Now!
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| 0:00.0 | It's a kind of irony that the more and more we get into it, there is a potential pitfall |
| 0:11.4 | where you can get so focused on the specifics of nutrition and then trying to dial it |
| 0:15.6 | in even more and more and going in super detailed on stuff that perhaps you're missing the |
| 0:20.4 | bigger picture and doing things that are taking away from your overall health and again, |
| 0:25.1 | I mean that in the biggest sense of the world, not just physical health, that health and |
| 0:29.4 | this is something I've talked about on a podcast recently is such a broad term that's not just |
| 0:34.2 | physical health, there's also like obviously psychological health, but there's all these other |
| 0:38.2 | little factors that I would count as making someone a healthy human or not. Hey guys, big announcement |
| 0:45.0 | for today, we decided to take a summer break. That way the legendary life team can spend some time |
| 0:52.0 | with their loved ones and recharge, but also we're going through a process where we are restructuring |
| 0:59.2 | our business, we joined a coaching program, I've taken my own advice to hire a coach and so |
| 1:05.2 | excited, we're going to be creating the best content ever and we're going to be launching that |
| 1:10.7 | very soon. But in the next few weeks, what we're going to do is on Mondays, we're going to |
| 1:15.8 | re-release our top downloaded episodes. On Fridays, of course, I love doing Fridays, I love doing |
| 1:22.0 | the real talk episodes, so those will be new every single week, but this way it's going to be great. |
| 1:28.7 | We're restructuring everything and have the guidance that we needed to do so, so this is going to |
| 1:34.7 | be a win for you, a win for us, so I want you to get ready for our best content ever. That's going |
| 1:41.9 | to be released soon, we'll give you more notice about when those things happen, but until then we're |
| 1:47.5 | sending you our love, wishing you a great summer to spend with your loved ones, but also to relax, |
| 1:54.1 | to de-stress, and to have some more me time, so we can all live a legendary life. |
| 2:01.8 | What is up my friend and welcome to the Legendary Life podcast, I'm Health Expert Ted Rice |
| 2:08.2 | Coach, to entrepreneurs, executives, and other high-performing professionals. And what we do here |
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