Nutritionist Pixie Turner - The anti-diet movement, privilege and vegan sperm
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Pixie Turner about science advocacy, the anti-diet movement, instagram, priviledge, meeting people where they are, not wanting children, moral licensing, the emotional component of food, going to a private all girls school, sexuality, heartbreak, boundaries, and The Egg Catastrophe.
Trigger warning – fat-shaming, anxiety, perfectionism, fatphobia, diets, wellness, eating disorders, orthorexia, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, diet industry, suicide, online abuse, religion, clean eating, anti-vaxxing, people pleasing, cancer, therapy, eating, food, shame, body-shaming, health scare, fear of failure, bullying from teachers, homophobia, trauma, body image, childhood trauma
Artwork by Justine McNichol
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Produced by Dave Pickering
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| 0:00.0 | We have to meet people where they are right now and right now society is in such a way that people will be more likely to listen to a thin person and that's shit but it is the way things are right now we have to go with that in order to nudge things in the direction of change. |
| 0:15.6 | It is important for there to be some thin people who can then also sign post people towards |
| 0:21.8 | fat people to say like I'm going to introduce this idea to you |
| 0:24.6 | because it's more comfortable coming from me and then once it's more comfortable this is where you should be getting this |
| 0:29.4 | information from you are listening to made of human also known as the mole part a podcast hosted by Sophie |
| 0:37.6 | Fagan who is a Danish comedian |
| 0:41.0 | Mow. |
| 0:42.0 | Trying to find out how to do life. |
| 0:47.0 | But it turns out. |
| 0:50.0 | Nobody knows Mopah. |
| 0:53.0 | Mopah. |
| 0:58.0 | I love Pixit, Tana, and if you don't know her, you will now and you will also love her. She is brilliant. She has so much |
| 1:05.6 | patience, she has so much knowledge, she's super helpful and yeah you're gonna love |
| 1:11.4 | her. She's a nutritionist and she is so there's been some quite a lot of fat shamey things all over the news and stuff and in advertising and stuff like that and yeah Pixi was one of the people who |
| 1:26.7 | fought it and it's so nice to have a thin person fight for fat people so I was really into talking to her and I mean not |
| 1:36.6 | surprisingly it turns out she's so much more than just that she's incredible I |
| 1:42.0 | love it a bit. |
| 1:43.0 | You will too. I am on tour at the moment of the UK. |
| 1:48.0 | It's very hard, there's not really a place where I can reach every single person who comes to my tour. So I kind of just have to hope that people see my website. |
| 1:59.0 | And on my website, so I'm taking a com forward slash tour. There's a thing that says if you have any kind of accessibility needs, |
| 2:05.6 | check the frequently asked questions. And in that I talk about the tour and I talk about |
| 2:11.6 | trigger warnings and fat seating I think and anxiety |
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