Ep. 84 Unraveling Diet Culture with Christy Harrison
Welcome to season three of RECLAIM! We are kicking off the season with Christy Harrison, author, podcast host and registered dietician who shares her thoughts on what it means to dismantle diet culture. We explore the insidious ways we perpetuate problematic diet language within our relationships, the science behind “health” and how we can do better by one another.
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CHRISTY HARRISON
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor based in New York City. She offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. Since 2013 Christy has hosted Food Psych, a podcast exploring people's relationships with food and paths to body acceptance. It is now one of iTunes’ top 100 health podcasts, reaching tens of thousands of listeners worldwide each week.
Christy began her career in 2003 as a journalist covering food, nutrition, and health, and she's written for and edited major publications including Gourmet, The Food Network, Refinery29, Slate, BuzzFeed, Modernist Cuisine, Epicurious, and many more. As an expert on intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, and people's relationships with food, she's been quoted in top media outlets including The Washington Post, Self, Health, Refinery29, Men's Fitness, Bon Appetit, The Observer, and more. Her forthcoming book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, will be published by Little, Brown Spark in January of 2020 and is available for pre-order now. Learn more about Christy and her work at christyharrison.com.
