EP80 - {Summer Shorts} Why is Cosmo Promoting Orthorexia? w/ Pixie Turner of Plant Based Pixie

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

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of our summer shorts series, Associate Registered Nutritionist Pixie Turner and I dissect a worrying Cosmo article from the July 2018 issue that feels more like a flashback to the clean eating articles of 2014. The article called 'Choose it or Lose it' promotes unnecessarily restrictive food swaps, demonising perfectly good foods and reads like a 'how to guide to orthorexia'.

In this episode we:

✨Discuss why it's unhelpful to focus on the minutiae of detail about nutrition
✨How food rules can lead to and overly restrictive diet and potentially even orthorexia
✨Blow the lid off some nutrition myths
✨How articles like this contribute to food fear

Show Notes

{Pixie Turner Nutrition}
{Pixie on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook}
{Refined Sugar Free is Not a Thing}
{Coconut Oil is Over}
{Can you Boost Your Immune System}
{Resources for Orthorexia}
{Podcast Episode on Orthorexia}
{Social Media and the Rise of Orthorexia}
{The Wellness Rebel}

Transcript

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0:00.0	She's got the expert guests to help you feel your best.
0:06.4	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 the Don't Salt my game. No, don't salt my game.
0:22.7	Hey guys, welcome to the Don't Salt My Game summer shorts series, which are little
0:27.5	concentrated, focused, bite-sized podcast nugs that just get to the fucking point.
0:32.9	I'm Laura Thomas and I'm a registered nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor.
0:37.8	So this first podcast in the series is inspired by something that a listener sent to me,
0:42.6	which was an article published in the current UK issue of Cosmo Magazine.
0:47.5	And basically it looks like a flashback to Women's Health magazine circa 2015 at the height
0:53.3	of cleaning.
0:54.4	It's called Choose It or Lose It, and the TLDR is this.
0:58.8	It's basically a sort of swap this for that, quote, healthier option, and essentially it's a load
1:06.4	of neuterbolics.
1:07.4	So I called in backup from the Queen Bullshit Detector, Pixie Turner, aka
1:14.0	plant-based Pixie. Hello. Okay, Pixie, we have got 20 minutes on the clock. So why don't we
1:20.4	begin with just setting the scene of this article? Why is it problematic? Oh, God, where to begin?
1:27.5	There's just so much wrong with this.
1:29.7	Firstly, this whole idea that there are certain foods that you should be absolutely avoiding and swapping for other things.
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