S2 Ep46: Wellness Traps & Nutrition Tea: Diet Culture Is Sabotaging You w/ Shana Minei Spence

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Nutrition, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of conflicting nutrition advice and expensive wellness trends? Join me as I sit down with Shana Minei Spence, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and author of "Live Nourished," to unpack the dangerous myths of diet culture and discover a more balanced approach to health - We are going to dive into THE NUTRITION TEA.

Connect with Shana:
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Shana's Book
Quote from Shana: "Health is not just what we eat and exercise. There is so much more to it and it requires nuance."

We are diving into:
🥑 The problem with health extremes and why being "healthy" seems so expensive and complicated
🍎 Debunking the most dangerous myth in diet culture: detoxing
💪 Why the "clean eating" obsession might be doing more harm than good
🧠 The often-overlooked mental health aspects of nutrition and wellness
📚 Insights from Shana's book on making peace with food and banishing body shame

Key takeaways we won't want to miss:
- The truth about processed foods and why not all convenience foods are evil
- How to simplify nutrition and focus on what really matters
- Practical tips for nourishing your body without restrictive food rules
- Addressing mental health challenges like ADHD in relation to nutrition and wellness

Whether you're struggling with food guilt, overwhelmed by nutrition information, or simply looking for a more joyful approach to health, this episode is for you. Join me in dismantling diet culture myths and reclaiming a balanced, judgment-free relationship with food and wellness.

Tune in for a refreshing, no-BS conversation that will change the way you think about nutrition, health, and self-care. It's time to nourish your body and mind without the side of guilt!

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0:00.0	Hello, crew. Welcome back to WellSat. I'm so excited. You're here. I love having nutrition
0:05.2	conversations because being in the world of fitness too, it's a huge conversation piece and people
0:11.1	ask me about it often. And I think we're running into a lot of us feeling like there is so much
0:16.8	mass information that it is unmanageable, unbearable. We can't focus. We don't know which one to
0:22.3	choose. We have to choose. We can't have healthy and unhealthy at the same time. Even myself,
0:28.0	I'm on a learning journey of like, what do I need to unlearn? And what have I been told that's
0:32.7	actually not true? And it's not healthy to live by. so I'm very excited um we have someone on shana
0:39.7	minai spence and she is the owner of the nutrition tea and the author of live nourish she's amazing
0:45.8	um we were chatting before this i won't lie which can't we can't help it um her book is a non diet
0:50.6	book that takes in socioeconomics um into conversation, which I think a lot of us
0:55.8	forget about when we're saying and stating our extremes. But she's a registered dietitian
1:00.4	nutritionist based in Brooklyn, New York. We love New York. And she's just got a ton of amazing
1:05.7	background. You work in public health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, community
1:09.9	nutrition lessons, you and your own company. She describes herself as an all-foods Public Health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Community Nutrition Lessons,
1:11.1	you and your own company. She describes herself as an all-foods-fit dietitian. I just think
1:16.1	this is such an amazing conversation because we don't have to pick, and I want to talk about it.
1:21.9	So, Shana, welcome. I'm excited. Thank you so much. Yes, I'm so excited. I think you know all too well the problem conversations that are happening, like how I kind of buttoned it up to be and why I was like, okay, I need to have you on is we're living in a health extremes environment that is literally brainwashing us and making it hard and expensive
1:46.0	and creating panic in America. And me even being in the industry is like, oh my God, we have so
1:53.8	much mass information. There's things you can eat. There's things you cannot eat. I mean,
1:58.5	can you talk about the harms of this conversation?
2:02.9	Totally. And I think there's so much information thrown at us, also misinformation as well.
2:09.7	And it's just, it's so hard because even a dietitian, even someone in the health field, or you
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