Cutting Through Diet Culture Noise and Elevating the RD Industry with Culina Health Co-founder Vanessa Rissetto, RD
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk to Registered Dietician and co-founder of Culina Health, Vanessa Rissetto. Vanessa shares how an insatiable curiosity about nutrition inspired her to switch from a career in marketing to getting her degree in nutrition, why RDs historically haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve, and how she operates as a no-bullshit leader in health and nutrition. We talk about the inflammatory nature of diet culture, why Vanessa is sometimes a provocative voice in the industry, and how she’s determined to elevate representation in the RD world and provide accessible nutrition resources for all.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- Thoughts on “What I eat in a day” videos
- Postpartum weight and body confusion
- Navigating anti diet culture as an RD
- The difference between RDs and nutritionists
- Being a POC dietician leader in a predominantly white space
- How to eat to avoid blood sugar spikes
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Website: culinahealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Freckled Foodie fam. Today's episode is with Vanessa Resetto, who is the co-founder of Kulina Health, |
| 0:06.9 | which is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize |
| 0:13.1 | the way you want to live. They make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand, |
| 0:20.4 | so that you can fuel a satisfying and well-balanced life. Yes, I read that off their website because |
| 0:25.6 | I thought it was actually more helpful to give it to you from the founder's mouth than from mine, |
| 0:30.7 | but we dive into Kulina Health as a company in this episode, and I know a few of you |
| 0:36.4 | message me that you actually are clients of theirs and love them, so that's amazing. But we also dive |
| 0:41.8 | way more into the concept of the life of an RD, what it looks like in today's world, where |
| 0:50.8 | people are really quick to just shut anyone down when they're talking about anything that has |
| 0:55.2 | to do with diet in the sense of, oh, that's diet culture. We both give some pretty hot takes that |
| 1:01.8 | maybe not everyone is going to love, but that is okay. We are all entitled to our own thoughts and |
| 1:07.3 | opinions, and we talk about the racial divide that exists within the RD industry and how 81 percent |
| 1:16.8 | of registered dietitians are white, and how Vanessa is here to break that mold and also hopefully |
| 1:23.6 | encourage others and create a space that is more accessible and affordable to anyone who was |
| 1:30.6 | interested in assistance when it comes to their diet. We dive into a lot, and I love this episode. |
| 1:36.4 | This is my first time meeting Vanessa, and she is absolutely my type of person. As you can see, |
| 1:41.9 | we have very similar thoughts on things and different thoughts, but she kind of lays it all out |
| 1:48.2 | there in a matter that I love, where she's like, there's no bullshit. This is who I am. Take it or |
| 1:53.0 | leave it, you don't have to love me, and I respect the share out of it. So without further ado, here is Vanessa. |
| 1:58.9 | Vanessa, thank you so much for joining me. I'm very excited to have you on the podcast. |
| 2:27.1 | Thanks for having me. I'm so excited. I feel like I feel like I know a lot of people that know you, |
| 2:35.3 | and so it just always comes back. That always happens with guests that I haven't met yet, |
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