The Problem With "Healthy Eating": Orthorexia & Diet Culture
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
When the pursuit of health becomes unhealthy, it’s time to rewrite the rules. From struggling with orthorexia to becoming a leading voice against diet culture, registered dietitian Abbey Sharp joins us to explore the complex relationship between mental health and eating. Abbey shares her journey from an obsession with "clean eating" to helping others find food freedom, while breaking down popular wellness myths and the science behind trending diets. Together, Jer, Taylor and Abbey dive into intuitive eating, the controversy around Ozempic, and why the pursuit of "perfect" eating might be doing more harm than good. Whether you're wrestling with your own relationship with food or just trying to make sense of the latest TikTok nutrition trends, this episode offers an honest, evidence-based perspective on finding balance in a world obsessed with diets.
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| 0:44.3 | Hey. Hey, folks, welcome to another episode of Sick Boy. |
| 0:53.4 | Today, we are diving into the very messy world of diet culture, but we're doing it with our friend Abby Sharp. |
| 0:55.7 | Abby is a registered dietitian. |
| 1:00.7 | She's the creator of the extraordinarily popular YouTube series, Abby's Kitchen, |
| 1:07.4 | and the host of a new podcast called Bite Back. From her raw personal journey with orthorexia to ruthlessly debunking wellness trends. And, you know, we're talking |
| 1:13.5 | about things like O-Zempic. Not to be confused with O-Zempic, but O'T Zempic. Abby is not afraid to |
| 1:21.8 | call out the pseudoscience that's flooding our feeds. Whether you're confused about intuitive eating or wondering why the latest TikTok diet seems |
| 1:32.8 | too good to be true, this conversation cuts through the noise with insight, humor, |
| 1:38.4 | and much needed reality checks. |
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