Making Peace With Food in Diet Culture | Christy Harrison

The Lindsey Elmore Show

Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS is a journalist, registered dietitian, and certified intuitive eating counselor. She’s the author of Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark 2019), and The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being (Little, Brown Spark 2023). Christy is also the coauthor, with psychotherapist Judith Matz, of The Making Peace with Food Card Deck. Since 2013 Christy has produced and hosted Food Psych, a weekly podcast exploring people’s relationships with food and paths to body acceptance. It regularly ranks as one of Apple’s top 100 Health podcasts, reaching tens of thousands of listeners worldwide. In addition to her media work, Christy offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. Christy began her career in 2003 as a writer and editor covering food, nutrition, and health, and she’s written for publications including The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, WIRED, Refinery29, Gourmet, Slate, The Food Network, and many others. Her work has been covered in numerous outlets including The Washington Post, Health, and TODAY. Learn more about Christy and her work at christyharrison.com. Topics covered in this episode: Wellness Culture Wellness Misinformation Disinformation Supplements Disordered Eating Anecdotal Evidence Adrenal Fatigue Mental Wellness Improvement Intuitive Eating Referenced in the episode: The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 174 | Overcoming Political Influence on Healthcare | John Abramson The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 210 | Rewiring an Addicted Brain | Deborah Mash To learn more about Christy Harrison and her work, head over to https://www.christyharrison.com/ __________________________________________________________ Amare has a new product and it is called GBX Burn. If you have been ready to burn fat before it weighs you down, you might consider getting this little orange capsule. This is a synergistic blend of natural herbs and spices and amino acids to help you burn more calories and burn more fat. You’ll love it because it improves thermogenesis. This is the way your body creates heat to burn calories and helps with appetite control. It’s stimulant free, but still helps you to increase your energy and it may help to reduce visceral fat storage. It’s gluten-free soy, free dairy free, doesn’t have any preservatives, artificial colors, artificial flavors or sweeteners. It’s also all natural and vegan and available to you now. Head to http://www.lindseyelmore.com/amare to save $10 off of any purchase today! __________________________________________________________ Do you want to live a healthy lifestyle but you don’t know where to find reliable health education, you don’t have someone you can trust to lead you to which health and wellness options are out there. When you go to http://www.Wellnessmadesimple.us you can learn practical skills that you need to build a healthy lifestyle. You’ll gain access to more than 85 videos, 11 hours of education and more education is always being added, and you'll join a community that has given more than 2400 positive reviews. All you have to do is get access, and right now we are offering half off of an annual subscription when you shop the code 2023Wellness and after that, watch the coursework, then implement daily changes positively transform your help you can feel better. Go to http://www.Wellnessmadesimple.us to get an annual subscription, and shop the code 2023Wellness for half off of your annual subscription. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Many people with chronic illnesses understandably feel dismissed and abandoned by Western health care.
0:09.4	And oftentimes this leads people to seek out solace in alternative medicine.
0:15.1	Yet the wellness industry sometimes promotes practices that can cause even more damage than their
0:24.7	conventional alternatives. There's a lack of pre-market safety testing on herbal and dietary
0:33.1	supplements and basically wellness influencers out there can go and say anything that they want on
0:42.6	social media and social media algorithms can oftentimes drive users down rabbit holes of
0:51.0	misinformation and disinformation and it can often feel like nobody is looking out for us
0:59.6	in the face of a $4.4 trillion global wellness industry. Today, we're going to dive into the wellness trap where we see persistent systemic problems with the industry.
1:17.4	We also look at how there are destructive viewpoints on mental health within wellness.
1:24.9	Sometimes we see cultural appropriation.
1:31.6	And we also look at the history of the growing distrust of conventional medicine and why we just decided that everything natural was completely
1:40.3	safe and effective. We talk about the harms that wellness culture can have while simultaneously
1:48.8	reimagining how we can shift our society's relationship with well-being. We all want to be
1:58.8	well, but if we can't get away from toxic diet culture, diagnoses that
2:05.3	sometimes we think have to get better before they get worse, how will we ever learn to
2:12.0	trust our intuition and pursue true well-being? My guest today is Christy Harrison.
2:19.4	She is the author of The Wellness Trap.
2:22.3	And we are going to talk about how we break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious
2:28.8	diagnoses, and find our true well-being.
2:33.8	This is The Lindsay Elmore Show. Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show,
2:38.2	a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy with honest, open, and enlightening conversations
2:44.7	with doctors, thought leaders, creatives, and spiritual gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks that allow you
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