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Hey, it's Wendy.

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.

Your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

Welcome to another episode of the Food Heaven Podcast.

Today we're talking with Dr. Melissa Febelo, a social justice activist whose work focuses on

body politics, beauty culture, and eating disorders.

As a digital creator, Melissa develops online content to challenge others

to unpack oppressive ideology around food bodies and beauty.

She received her PhD in human sexuality studies and also holds

in masters in education and human sexuality.

Today we're going to be talking with Melissa about body image sex,

relationships, and more.

Welcome to the podcast, Melissa.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited.

So I feel like you have a bunch of different intersections

that you focus on, including body politics, sex, eating disorders.

How did you initially become interested in all of these things?

Or did it kind of develop over the years?

And then you saw that they, yeah, that there was some intersection there?

Yeah, you know, it's funny.

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