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Episode 12 : Musing on the Good Food and Wine Show
We went, we ate, we reflected. We saw Nagi Maehashi (aka Recipetin Eats) live!
We were please to see a love of food without an obvious side of diet culture and Meg was so hungry that she ate a chip made of of...
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Episode 11 : Be Careful Little Ears
On today's episode we chat about a couple of things we have seen on social media recently that have caused us to have some 'thoughts'. Both were concerning diet culture messages directed at or out of the mouths of...
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Ep:10 Choosing Joy, Connectedness, and Self-Care Over Weight Loss
On this episode of Life's Too Short to Count Almonds, we answer a question from a listener this week about weight loss and diet culture. We explore the harmful effects of diet culture and it's obsession with weight...
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Episode 9 "Leave them Kids Alone"
Unfortunately Diet Culture gets it's tentacles in soooooo early. Today we chat about an, unfortunately not isolated, incident when a health professional gives restrictive diet advice to a toddler. As I'm sure you can...
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Episode 8 : Pleasure in food is not always as simple as it seems
This week we’re talking about pleasure. Pleasure gets a bad name in food and nutrition. Pleasure is associated with “bad” or forbidden foods.
However we know that when people have a peaceful a relationship with food...
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Episode 7 : Family dynamics in eating and feeding
Our eating is often impacted by those around us. Sometimes this is really helpful as it can help us explore new or different food, eat more regularly than we might or help us develop our skills of 'making do'. But...
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Episode 6: Isn't meal planning part of diet culture?
If you asked Meg or Susan 'what is the one thing that helps you with managing food/feeding the family/saving money on food etc' we would both answer 'meal planning'. Sometimes people are surprised that we are such...
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Episode 5: Don't read the comments?
Within a week of #blueygate the producers of the episode that created the social media storm had removed the 45 seconds from the beginning of the episode #winning! So, these storms can lead to great change...but there...
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Episode 4: "Cost of beauty" campaign and the broader cost of dieting
Meg made Susan cry by making her watch the Dove 'Cost of Beauty' video. You can watch it too if you're up to it - heads up, it's very emotive and challenging so give it a miss if that's not going to be helpful for you...
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Episode 3; What the fudge is a non-diet dietitian?
We went and saw a comedian this week, ended up in the front row and Susan got picked on. #sorrysusan When asked, "What do you do?", her first response cannot be repeated without checking the 'explicit content' box on...
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Episode 2; Basic Principles for Non-Diet Catering
This week we chat about the incredible virtual conference 'Bodytalks; FEASTival of Anti-diet Ideas' that our friend and colleague, Clinical Psychologist Louise Adams is putting on in May. Having catered for Louise's...
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Episode 1: Diet Culture and Curating our Social Media
Social media is not going anywhere and can be a useful way to build community, feel connected, get new and fun ideas, but it is also a cesspool of bad nutrition advice, predatory marketing and impossible beauty...
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