Deprogramming Diet Culture with Dr. Supatra Tovar
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of REJUVENAGING with Dr. Ron Kaiser, Dr. Ron welcomes Dr. Supatra Tovar, a clinical psychologist, registered dietitian, and fitness expert who specializes in helping individuals overcome the influences of diet culture and develop a healthier relationship with food. Dr. Supatra shares her personal journey, from her early exposure to eating disorders to her multifaceted career in health, fitness, and psychology. Her unique approach combines science and compassion to help clients recover from disordered eating through her book, Deprogram Diet Culture, and her innovative method that emphasizes tuning into the body’s natural cues and rejecting harmful societal messages around food and body image.
Dr. Supatra dives into the origins of diet culture, the biological realities behind dieting's ineffectiveness, and why sustainable health isn’t found in restrictive eating habits. She explains how our current food environment promotes overeating and how diet culture capitalizes on our insecurities. Dr. Supatra also offers practical advice on limiting exposure to negative influences, building a healthy relationship with exercise, and fostering positive self-image—just in time for the holidays.
Join Dr. Ron and Dr. Supatra as they unravel the myths and pressures around dieting and explore ways to reclaim a balanced, joyful approach to food and health.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it is quite a long and winding road, so I'll try to make it as succinct as possible. |
| 0:05.7 | I grew up in Colorado, and I was a very, very active kid, always outside. |
| 0:10.4 | My dad really taught me well, being very athletic, very active, hiking, backpacking, fishing, the whole gamut. |
| 0:19.3 | So I never really had to worry about waiter's shape growing up. I was always just naturally thin and very athletic and just ate whatever I want. |
| 0:28.6 | And it wasn't until I was in high school when I experienced somebody very close to me having an eating disorder. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to very close to me having an eating disorder. |
| 0:44.4 | Welcome to rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 0:49.7 | This is a podcast designed to help you lead your life enthusiastically today, |
| 0:51.6 | tomorrow, and every other day. I am your host, Ron Kaiser, positive health psychologist, also keynote |
| 0:56.7 | and TEDx speaker and author of the triple award-winning book, Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of |
| 1:04.0 | Growing Older with Enthusiasm. As listeners to the podcast know, my goal is always to bring you guests who lead their own lives with enthusiasm and have different ways of helping us to become better and more enthusiastic versions of ourselves. |
| 1:21.1 | And there's no better way to do that than to eat right, be proud of your body, and be able to keep going as long as you |
| 1:31.7 | can. And so it is with great pleasure that today I introduce our special guest, Dr. Supatra Tovar. |
| 1:40.9 | She is a clinical psychologist, registered dietitian, and fitness experts. So she covers a lot of |
| 1:49.1 | really important stuff that I'm looking forward to our conversation so much. She's also the |
| 1:57.4 | author of Deprogram Diet Culture, which has a number of other things that come after the colon. |
| 2:03.6 | I'm going to let her tell us a little more about it, but I don't want to waste any more time before we get into some of this really important stuff. |
| 2:13.3 | So, Supatra, welcome to rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 2:19.0 | It is such a pleasure to have you with us. |
| 2:21.8 | Thank you, Dr. Ron. |
| 2:22.9 | It's lovely to be here. |
| 2:24.9 | Great. |
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