Hello and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jermeda Jamil. So I'm really excited about today's

episode. This is someone I've wanted to get on the podcast for a really long time. I met him

because we were kind of fighting. We were fighting online in the DMs and then we became friends

and then we became allies and now I just fucking love him and he is a real blessing in the world,

I believe. His name is Dr Joshua Walrich. He is an NHS doctor in the United Kingdom. He has a

passion for helping people improve their relationship with food. He is one of very few men in the

industry who's actually addressing weight stigma and diet culture and he's often on Instagram

combating nutrition misinformation and fat diets all the while reminding us that there's more to

health than just our weight. Now this is someone who used to struggle with eating disorders. This is

someone who then even had an Instagram account that was very fat phobic and dedicated to kind of

sharing. I'm not going to say misinformation but not ideal information about food and meals

and the virtue around food and he's now completely shifted gears to becoming such an incredible

ally in the fight against fat phobia, the fight against diet culture and because he's actually someone

who is studying this, I mean he's doing a nutrition masters at the moment and he is dedicating his

entire life to this and he's an actual doctor who went to actual medical school. We couldn't have

someone better on our side especially considering that doctors can sometimes be some of the biggest

enemies and perpetrators of fat phobia and they often, you know, this is something we talk a lot

about in this episode. They often can be responsible for harming the health of other people because they

are so fat phobic and ignorant about weight loss and body fat and the BMI and so to have a doctor

finally on our side just feels so incredible and this is a long episode because it is packed

with information. There was nothing I could cut, there was nothing I wanted to cut. Every single

thing he said, everything we talked about was so vital to hear. I want to offer a trigger warning

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