#93: The Truth about Dieting & Health at Every Size with Body-Positive RDs Rebecca Scritchfield & Julie Duffy Dillon
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Fellow body-positive RDs Rebecca Scritchfield and Julie Duffy Dillon return for a special episode in honor of NEDA Week and National Nutrition Month! We discuss our new joint campaign #ChangeTheGame, why the nutrition field often plays right into diet culture, why we need to stop prescribing one thing to people with diagnosed eating disorders and another thing to the rest of the population, how dieting messes with your mind, and lots more!
Julie Duffy Dillon is a food behavior expert who helps people enjoy eating again. Award winning with her progressive approach, Julie was featured in TLC’s documentary My Big Fat Fabulous Life. Julie has an active blog on JulieDillonRD.com and a weekly Food Peace Newsletter. Listen to her weekly body positive, diet free, and health promoting podcast Love, Food where she answers listener letters about their complicated relationship with food. Julie received her BS in Nutrition from Ohio University and MS in Mental Health Counseling from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a registered and licensed dietitian in North Carolina, she founded BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy a group practice passionate about helping individuals and families recover from eating disorders and PCOS. As a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDRD), she also supervises dietitians to be eating disorder specialists. Don't miss Julie's previous appearance on Food Psych!
Rebecca Scritchfield is a well-being coach, registered dietitian nutritionist, certified health and fitness specialist and author of the book, Body Kindness, which Publisher’s Weekly calls “a rousing guide to better health.” Through her weight-neutral mindfulness-based counseling practice, she helps people create a better life with workable goals that fit individual interests. She is the co-founder of Dietitians for Body Confidence, a website and free bi-monthly e-mail dedicated to shared learning among dietitians and future RDNs to improve body image in people they serve. Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, Body Kindness podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the Today show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Health, Shape, and many others. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was recently recognized as one of ten “Supermom” entrepreneurs in the Nation’s Capital. Find her online at RebeccaScritchfield.com, get her book at BodyKindnessBook.com, and don't miss her previous episode of Food Psych!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.2 | size. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.3 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 93 of Food Psych. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today we have a very special episode for you. |
| 0:44.3 | In honor of National Nutrition Month and the beginning of National Eating Disorders |
| 0:48.2 | Awareness Week, I've got together with you. |
| 0:50.2 | Together with two of my favorite colleagues in the health at every size in eating disorder |
| 0:54.6 | recovery field, Julie Duffy-Dillon and Rebecca Skritchfield, to talk about some of the issues |
| 1:00.3 | with National Nutrition Month and the messaging you might be getting this month and why we |
| 1:05.9 | need to change the game when it comes to how we talk about nutrition and health. |
| 1:10.2 | That's all coming up in a minute and I can't wait to share it with you all. |
| 1:13.7 | First though, I want to tell you about a couple of great resources for helping you make |
| 1:17.0 | peace with food. |
| 1:18.4 | The first is my free quiz to assess if you have a healthy relationship with food, kind |
| 1:23.0 | of see where you're at, and I'll send you your results via email along with more than |
| 1:26.8 | a dozen individualized tips to help you make peace with food wherever you may fall on |
| 1:30.9 | the spectrum right now. |
| 1:32.5 | You can take the quiz and get your results today at christihererson.com slash quiz. |
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