How diet culture is stopping you from playing bigger, with Laura Thomas PHD
How much mental energy do we spend every day worrying about our size, shape, diet and exercise regime? What could we get done in life if this wasn't occupying so much of our brains? Laura Thomas PHD is a Registered Nutritionist and certified Intuitive Eating counselor on a mission to help us find out. In this week's episode, she blows the lid off everything you thought you knew about health and nutrition - and shares the evidence-based, game-changing truths that our bodies knew all along. As you might expect, this episode contains references to food, body image, and eating disorders, so please practice lots of self-care when choosing to listen if those are triggering topics for you right now.
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Show Notes
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Laura's new book - Just Eat It
- Laura's career path and journey to Intuitive Eating, and how podcasting shaped her career
- Defining 'diet culture' why it's unhealthy for you, and it's relationship with the patriarchy
- Challenging BMI negativity, and why it's a poor indicator of risks to health and disease
- Laura defines Intuitive Eating, and it's physical and mental health benefits
- How to spot bad nutrition advice
- Busting the myths around diets, 'unhealthy foods' and alternative therapies
- The relationship between food and mental health
- Dealing with negative responses to her posts
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Just Eat It - Laura's book
- Don't Salt My Game - Laura's podcast
- Laura's Sunday Times interview with Dolly Alderton
- The London Centre for Intuitive Eating
- Health and Care Professionals Council and The Association for Nutrition
- The Angry Chef
- Dr Anjali Mahto
- Laura's articles - We Need To Talk About 'Refined Sugar Free' & Think You Have a Sugar Addiction? Here's Why Cutting Out Sugar Might Actually Backfire
- Pre Order my book][1]
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