Podcast Episodes

#314: Do Autoimmune Diets Really Work?

Season 9 Episode 314

We discuss whether autoimmune diets really work, placebo effects and the problem with anecdotal evidence about diets, and the harmful side effects th…

3 years, 1 month ago

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#313: Rethinking Wellness: Wellness Culture and Infertility, the Challenges of Baby Feeding, and Unpacking Food Sensitivities with Jenee Desmond-Harris

Season 9 Episode 313

Jenée Desmond-Harris, Slate Magazine's Dear Prudence advice columnist, joins us to discuss her path toward making peace with food and realizing she d…

3 years, 1 month ago

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[Repost] #279: What If You Can’t Stop Eating When Food Tastes Good?

Christy answers an audience question about what to do if you feel out of control with certain foods. We discuss the many reasons why you might feel c…

3 years, 1 month ago

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[Repost] #278: Honoring Your Subtle Hunger Cues

Christy answers an audience question about how to avoid eating too little throughout the day and ending up in an unintentional restrict-rebound cycle…

3 years, 2 months ago

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[Repost] #277: 5 Things You May Not Know About Emotional Eating

Are you “doing intuitive eating wrong” if you find yourself eating just because you feel bored/tired/sad/otherwise emotional, or just because you *wa…

3 years, 2 months ago

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#312: Health Anxiety, Wellness Misinformation, and Media Literacy with Casey Gueren

Season 9 Episode 312

Casey Gueren, award-winning health journalist and author of It's Probably Nothing, joins us to discuss how to deal with health anxiety, strategies fo…

3 years, 2 months ago

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#311: What If You're Eating When You're Not Hungry? And More

Season 9 Episode 311

We discuss why intuitive eating is NOT the hunger-and-fullness diet, the real reason many of us eat when we’re “not hungry,” setting boundaries on fo…

3 years, 2 months ago

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#310: Rethinking Wellness: Fitness Culture with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Season 9 Episode 310

Fitness and wellness historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela joins Christy to discuss her new book, Fit Nation; the historical shifts that made fitness go…

3 years, 2 months ago

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#309: Workplace Diet Talk, Lifestyle Medicine, and More

Season 9 Episode 309

Christy answers audience questions about how to deal with diet culture in the workplace, whether “lifestyle medicine” is compatible with an anti-diet…

3 years, 3 months ago

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#308: Planning an Elimination Diet? This Might Make You Think Again

Season 9 Episode 308

Christy answers an audience question about how elimination diets can do damage to your mental and physical well-being, and how/whether to tell a doct…

3 years, 3 months ago

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