Say goodbye to the food police and hello to peace. Welcome to the Love Food podcast, hosted by

dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. This authentically engineered series is in

the form of a love letter welcoming you to reconnect with food. Now pour a cup of coffee or a

margarita and let's begin.

Hi and welcome to episode 190 of the Love Food Podcast. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

food peace journey. I am so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today on this newest day

in 2020. And this newest day in the decade, and you know it, we are already hearing and seeing

so much talk about being smaller, healthier. Yes, National Diting Month has started.

And are you ready? I am here with you. Let's join together. Let's rally and let's make sure we

stay in our body and know that we can trust it. I hope this episode and all the episodes of a

Love Food podcast help you to get through 2020 feeling at home in your own skin. And I am so excited to be sharing

with you this episode because I get to talk to Christy Harrison, fellow anti-diet dietician,

and author of the new book that you, oh my gosh, you need to read. I think it is such an important book. It's one that

everyone's going to be talking about, and that makes me so excited because we need to really call

out diet culture for what it is. But Christy Harrison is the author of the book, Anti-Diet,

and she's going to help me sift through a letter that I was so glad to finally receive.

I get lots of different food letters about situations that are unique, but that also have some

similar themes.

But no one has asked yet about sustainability and environmentalism, vegetarianism and vegan veganism, and like, being kind to the

environment, how does one do that and walk their food piece journey? It is such an important

question. And Christy outlines an amazing kind of expose on environmental issues and how they're

intertwined with diet culture. So when I read this

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