Show Notes

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Episode’s Key Points:

• To close out 2019, I’m going to be reading a letter written by me, straight to diets.
• It’s time to dismantle diet culture, and I need your help. Send me your Dear, Food letter for next season to lovefoodpodcast@gmail.com. I’m looking forward to hearing them!
• Don’t forget to subscribe to the show, and leave a rating and review. It’s so important to leave a rating and review, as it helps people who are struggling with their relationship with food and body to find the podcast.
• “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” – Namoi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
• We should all be raising our children as feminists.
• Food IS political, and dieting IS political. We HAVE to talk about politics and feminism if we hope to dismantle diet culture and the patriarchy for good.
• Diets have condemned certain body sizes, and they have distracted all of us from experiencing true joy in our lives and with food. Diets keep us from experiencing connection and joy with others! Diets tell us we aren’t worthy of love until we’re the “right” size. But none of the things diets tell us are true.
• Diet culture pretends to be about health, and even has begun to feel like a religion. Diets have gone way too far.
• Diets predict weight gain and eating disorders!
• People who oppose diets, and the damage that they do, are coming together. The next generation of psychologists, dietitians, and health professionals will take diet culture down!!
• We need to teach health professionals about weight bias and weight stigma. It’s harmful to our health, even more-so than eating that french fry.
• Diets are sneaky manipulators, so smart that sometimes we don’t even know we’re being manipulated.
• It’s time to engage in our politics, understand our privilege, and stand up to diet and body oppression. It’s time for us all to feel more at home in our own skin, and to end the normalization of diets and fatphobia. See you in 2020!

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