EP 89 - Blowing the Lid Off Weight Science w/ Fiona Willer

Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Laura Thomas

Wellness, Bodypositivity, Plantbased, Nutrition, Medicine, Health, Vegan, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Nutritionist, Dontsaltmygame

4.8 • 807 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week Laura's joined by Fiona Willer, HAES dietitian + PhD researcher, director of Health Not Diets + author of The Non Diet Approach Guidebook for Dietitians. They take a deep dive into the current evidence within the weight science arena, pulling it apart to figure out what we can learn from it + improvements that need to be made in research + clinical practice going forward.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ The historical inaccuracy of the paleo diet using Fiona's archeological knowledge
✨ Unpacking the evidence in weight science + how it's so important that we read it critically
✨ What "statistical unicorns" are + the problems w/ the National Weight Control Registry
✨ Weight bias in the context of Tess Holiday's Cosmo cover + why the term 'weight bias' is probably not very accurate
✨ Nuggets of wisdom for what to do if you know that diets don't work but your doctor tells you to lose weight ... again

Show Notes

{Fi on Insta | Twitter}
{Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess}
{PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles - I'll share international links when they become available!}
{Raising Intuitive Eaters Workshop}
{Health, Not Diets website}
{Unpacking Weight Science}
{How to Respond When the Doctor Body Shames You + HCP card}
{Critique of the National Weight Control Registry}
{Combined Impact of Health Behaviours and Mortality study}
{Follow us on Insta!}

Transcript

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0:00.0	She's got the expert guests to help you feel your best.
0:06.3	Shats down what diet shit?
0:08.4	You shouldn't bother wet.
0:10.4	Get all the real talk from the plant-based talk.
0:14.4	Feeling good's in the frame.
0:16.4	Now on Don't Salt My Game.
0:20.2	No, don't salt my game. Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt my game. No, don't salt my game.
0:22.6	Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game.
0:24.8	I'm Laura Thomas.
0:25.7	I'm a registered nutritionist specializing in intrusive eating, weight, inclusive, and non-diet nutrition.
0:31.6	And we're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body positivity, and some other stuff
0:38.6	thrown in just for shits. So I think you guys are going to be really interested to hear what
0:45.2	today's guest has to say. But I just want to tell you really quickly about our child
0:50.4	feeding workshop. If you are listening to this on the day that it comes out, which is the
0:54.7	28th of September, it is the week before our Raising Intuitive Eaters workshop and we still have some
1:00.6	spots available. So I wanted to let you know about it really quickly in case you're in London and
1:05.9	you're free next weekend. So one of the most common concerns we hear from parents is how can I make sure I don't
1:13.4	pass my issues with food or body image onto my kids. And so we know that navigating diet culture is
1:19.8	tricky enough without having to raise kids in it too. And it's even harder when a lot of these
1:25.7	messages around feeding kids are rooted in diet culture.
1:29.1	So things like sugar is bad, limit snacks to 100 calories and even food tracking apps for kids.
1:36.0	Seriously, it's nuts.
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