EP90 - Bigorexia - Dudes Get Body Image Hang-Ups Too! w/ Scott Griffiths, Body Image Researcher

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

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

⚠️TW: Eating Disorders. This week Laura chats to Scott Griffiths who's a male body image researcher at the Uni of Melbourne. They get into the nitty gritty of muscle dysmorphia and how pressures from media + our wider social constructs can affect male body image.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ What muscle dysmorphia is + its various risk factors
✨ Similarities between the driving forces of muscle dysmorphia + anorexia nervosa
✨ The issues with moralising health + the problems with #fitspo
✨ The current limitations of the research in male body image
✨ Signs + symptoms to look out for, especially if you're worried about a friend or family member

Show Notes

{Scott on Twitter}
{Scott's TED talk}
{The Adonis Complex book}
{Male Body Image - Appearance Matters podcast}
{Stuart Murray's case reports}
{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}
{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.
0:14.5	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.
0:22.4	Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game.
0:24.5	I'm Laura Thomas.
0:25.4	I'm a registered nutritionist specializing in intrusive eating, weight inclusive, and non-diet nutrition.
0:31.1	We are here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body
0:35.4	positivity, and some other stuff thrown in for good measure.
0:39.4	Today, really quickly, I wanted to tell you that I'm doing an event with Anti-Diate Riot Club
0:44.5	called An Evening Exploring the Health Question.
0:48.2	So we'll be talking about health at every size and why body acceptance isn't glorifying obesity
0:53.4	and how you can't tell anything
0:55.8	about someone's health just by looking at them. We'll be answering that age-old question,
1:00.6	but what about health? And I'm sure we'll talk about weight stigma too. I'll be on a panel
1:05.5	with Lucy Affermore, who co-wrote Body Respect with Linda Bacon and Nadia Craddick who you may recognize from podcasts
1:13.4	such as this one as well as Holly Grant, aka the Pilates P.T. who has also been on this podcast. So
1:21.8	that's on the 16th of October at the book club in Shortitch in London. We'd love to see some of you,
1:30.1	if not all of you there. I don't think we can fit all of you into that room, but as many of you
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