Dr Joshua Wolrich on Nutrition and Stigma
Good Influence
Global
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Welcome back to Good Influence!
CW: This episode features discussion around food, weight stigma in medicine, dieting, mention of calories, disordered eating and other related topics. If you need support please click here for support resources from Beat.
This is the podcast where each week we'll meet a guest who’ll help us pay attention to something we should know about, but maybe don’t.
This week, we're talking about nutrition and stigma: how weight stigma affects society and medicine, the origins and problems with using BMI to determine health, and what doctors might sometimes be missing about our relationships with food.
Dr Joshua Wolrich is an NHS doctor and the author of best selling book 'Food Isn't Medicine'. He dedicates a lot of his time online to debunking bogus claims about nutrition, or as he calls them nutri-bollocks, and helping people sort of fact from fiction when it comes to diet claims.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Josh and his recommendations:
Instagram: @drjoshuawolrich
Twitter: @drjoshuawolrich
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to another episode of Good Influence. |
| 0:06.2 | This is the podcast where each week you and I meet a guest will help us pay attention |
| 0:10.0 | to something we should know about as well as answer some of your questions. |
| 0:15.6 | Before we start, I want to let you know that this episode discusses topics that some |
| 0:18.7 | people might find challenging. |
| 0:20.4 | If you think that might be you, then check the show notes before listening and please |
| 0:23.4 | do look after yourselves. |
| 0:25.9 | This week we're talking about nutrition and stigma. |
| 0:28.4 | How weight stigma affects society and medicine? |
| 0:31.4 | The origins and problems with using BMI to determine health? |
| 0:35.0 | And what doctors might sometimes be missing about our relationships with food? |
| 0:41.0 | Joining me this week is Dr Joshua Warrich. |
| 0:44.0 | Joshua is an NHS doctor and the author of bestselling book Food Isn't Medicine. |
| 0:48.8 | He dedicates a lot of his time online to debunking bogus claims about nutrition or as he calls |
| 0:53.3 | them Nutribolux and helping people sort of fact from fiction when it comes to diet claims |
| 0:57.8 | that we've all heard. |
| 0:59.5 | It all boils down to this thought that our health is completely under our control and that |
| 1:04.3 | our health is a personal responsibility and it's not. |
| 1:08.8 | Well, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. |
| 1:12.3 | That's all right. |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:14.3 | Nice to chat. |
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