The Waves: How to Protect Your Kids From Diet Culture

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re doing a very special Mom and Dad Are Fighting crossover with host Jamilah Lemieux. Jamilah sits down with author Virginia Sole-Smith to talk about her new book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture. They discuss helping kids accept their bodies in whatever form they take, dealing with our own internalized fatphobia, and more. In Slate Plus, answering a listener’s question on secret snacking. If you liked this episode, check out Making Friends As An Adult. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Rosemary Belson with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected]. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/thewavesplus to help support our work. Make an impact this Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund APIA Scholars. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Waves, Slates Podcasts about gender, feminism and important conversations.
0:18.6	Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our
0:22.0	minds.
0:23.0	And today you've got me, Jamila Neu, a writer and co-host of Mom and Dad are Fighting,
0:27.9	Slates Parenting Podcast.
0:29.9	Later in the show I'll be joined by author Virginia Sol Smith.
0:34.2	Today we're going to be having a very important conversation about a very important topic,
0:38.4	Diet Culture.
0:40.2	As an elder millennial, I grew up in an era where then it was not just in, it was everything.
0:46.6	Heroin chic, slim-fast shakes, Callista Flockhart on Allie McBeale, snack wells cookies,
0:53.1	bat monoco on friends, tabloids and moralized over celebrity weight gain and fond over celebrity
0:59.3	weight loss.
1:00.3	Nearly everyone on TV was thin and if they weren't, they were probably the butt of a joke.
1:05.9	You got a shot of Monica.
1:07.9	Where's Monica?
1:08.9	Over here, Dad.
1:09.9	Wait, how do you zoom out?
1:13.9	There she is.
1:19.9	I'm girl 8 Monica.
1:24.9	Shut up, the camera adds 10 pounds.
1:28.0	So how many cameras are actually on you?
1:31.1	Diet Culture ruled my childhood and the result for me has been a lifetime of disorder
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