What I'm Consuming [Top Reads + Podcasts]

I’m a voracious reader and podcast listener. I love learning about new ideas, different perspectives and people’s life experiences.

Following are a few articles, books and podcasts in the realms of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size®, body positivity and more that I’ve found very enlightening. Perhaps you will, too. 

READ

Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong
“For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It’s time for a new paradigm.”

Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do About It
“The quest for health and wellness has never been more urgent, yet most of us continue to buy into fad diets and unattainable body ideals, unaware of the damage we're doing to ourselves."

Please Don’t Teach My Kids to Diet: 5 Resources to Give Teachers and Schools
This article provides helpful tools for parents who are striving to create a weight-neutral, non-diet, intuitive eating environment for their kids—one that helps preserve their innate ability to regulate their intake.

LISTEN

Food Psych
Christy Harrison “talks with inspiring guests—including health and psychology professionals, anti-diet activists, and leaders in the body-positive movement—about their relationships with food, journeys to body image healing and fat acceptance, and experiences of recovery from weight stigma and eating disorders.”

Body Kindness
Author of a great book by the same name, Rebecca Scritchfield and her guests explore “the cultural influences that keep you stuck in ‘diet prison’ and how to break free to create meaningful changes in your life.” 

Dietitians Unplugged
With humor, warmth and wisdom, Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston discuss topics that will “help you improve your health, body image and fitness without obsessing on the scale or counting calories.”

Enjoy!