What Anti-Diet Gets Wrong with Jessica Wilson, MS, RD
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
You’ve heard us grapple with how diet culture has impacted us and shaped how we feed our families, but is talk of diet culture, body positivity, and intuitive eating a distraction from understanding the structures and systems of oppression (or worse: a tool that reinforces those structures and systems)? We talk to Jessica Wilson, MS, RD, and author It’s Always Been Ours, to start unpacking this question — and more.
Links from this episode
- All about Jessica Wilson
- Jessica’s book, It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
- Jessica on Instagram, @jessicawilson.msrd
- Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison
- The AAP childhood obesity guidelines, “Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity”
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite lines from the book, you know, only eating for biological reasons, this is like only having sex for procreation. |
| 0:10.0 | It's just this like weird, moralistic, puritanical connections to food that we think it's like food freedom. |
| 0:18.0 | Not really. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. A podcast about food. that we think it's like food freedom. Not really. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. |
| 0:25.8 | A podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:28.2 | Hey, I'm Megan. |
| 0:29.7 | And I'm Stacy. |
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| 1:01.6 | But you know, it's cool if you can't. We understand. Yeah, you can also join our free community |
| 1:08.6 | there. That community shares their weekly meal plans. They ask |
| 1:12.6 | cooking questions. They get direct access to us to. And who wouldn't want that? |
| 1:21.0 | I recently listened to an older episode of the podcast, like episode 54. And it was funny because we were talking about the |
| 1:28.5 | difference between rating and reviews. And like we had the old Facebook community. And like, |
| 1:34.0 | we were talking about how we, we had like 34 reviews at that time. And I don't know, |
| 1:39.2 | it just made us. That's cute. Yeah. It made me really proud of us. We were excited that we had 134 ratings and 34 |
| 1:46.9 | reviews. And now we're like, well, beyond that. And we'll soon be celebrating five years. Oh my gosh. Five |
| 1:53.3 | years and leaving Facebook, which was great for our Qajabi community. I know it was hard for some people, |
| 1:59.9 | but I feel really good about that move. |
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