Life's too short to count almonds

Life's too short to count almonds

Hosted by: Meg & Susan

Join non-diet dietitians Meg and Susan as we chat over food and body issues and help you find ways to defend your family against dieting, disordered eating and navigate a really difficult food culture.

Episodes

S4 Ep8 : Non-Diet Social Media Struggles

Season #4

We love a lot of the non-diet content we see on social media. It's such a great way for people to feel connected and less alone and is often the first introduction people have to a different way of relating to food....
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S4 Ep7 : Life's Too Short To Watch "Shockumentaries" in School

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This week's episode features Susan's middle and youngest daughters, and their takes on watching That Sugar Film in PE. In a shocking turn of events Susan's youngest daughter got in the car one day last week after...
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S4 Ep6 : The 'real' history of the Mediterranean Diet

Season #4

We have a short (and high energy) chat for you today. We took the opportunity of being in the same room to record an episode straight off the back of our live "Diet Culture Spring Clean" webinar. We chat about an...
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S4 Ep5 : Stopping Intergenerational Diet Culture

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Today we chat about how important it is that we don't continue to pass down diet culture from generation to generation but make a change. We have some practical suggestions on how to do this (cough, cough, come to our...
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S4 Ep4 : Olympic Bodies

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At this goes out we are halfway through the Paris 2024 Olympic games.  There's bodies on display and a lot of body commentary. Some of it is great, positive, inclusive and recognising that 'fit' doesn't have look and...
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S4 Ep3 : Ramble Chat

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This is what happens when we haven't caught up in a while and don't have a topic planned. We hope you enjoy our chat today, we talk food, cottage cheese getting out of it's scope of practice by pretending to be a wrap...
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S4 Ep 2 Life's too Short for Food Myths To Run The Show with Dr Emma Beckett

Season #4

We're thrilled to bring you today's chat with the fabulous Dr Emma Beckett. Food Scientist and Nutrition Scientist, Science communicator and all round excellent human. We chat about Emma's new book "You are More than...
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S4 Ep 1 We're Back! It's Dry July for many so we chat about alcohol.

Season #4

Welcome back to Season 4. Today we chat about dry July and alcohol consumption in general including the weird rise of 'low carb or low calorie' alcohol beverages being marketed with a 'health halo', cultural factors...
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