Diet Culture Podcast

Diet Culture

Dani Castellano
Diet culture takes up our time, our money, our happiness + it distracts us from more important issues. This Anti-Diet / Eating Disorder Dietitian is here to have honest conversations in order to shed light on why we need to take down diet culture and where we need to go from here.
25: Diet Culture and Pregnancy
Dani chats with Nick about her experience of encountering  how diet culture / fat-phobia is so tightly wrapped up with advice and resources for pregnancy, the alarming and unhelpful nutrition advice given, lack of inclusivity in popular books and apps, how pregnant/postpartum bodies are viewed and much more. Links for this episode: Body Positive Pregnancy Myths about Gestational DiabetesDo I need to Lose Weight to Get PregnantKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 
Nov 30, 2021
50 min
24: Navigating Thanksgiving
Dani chats with Nick about how diet culture shows up at Thanksgiving around recipe suggestions and fear-mongering about weight gain, checking in around joyful movement vs "burning off what you're eating" how to navigate food and body comments and the general stress of the holidays and much more.  Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 
Nov 23, 2021
43 min
23: Dr. Hortencia Jimenez
Dani chats with Dr. Hortencia Jimenez about micro aggressions and oppression impacting diet culture messages, the cultural importance of tortillas and how to take back fear foods, how eating foods that are important to you and your family is such a huge part of finding joy and connection, a sociologist's perspective on diet culture, the importance of self-compassion and gratitude and much more. You can find Dr. Jimenez on insta @drhortenciajimenez and the links to her work from there.- - - - - - Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 
Nov 16, 2021
38 min
22: Fitness and Nutrition Trackers
Dani chats with Nick about an article she read for CECs on fitness and nutrition trackers and how easily the mark can be missed when education is being provided around warning signs for eating disorders while also promoting restrictive behaviors for weight loss, where the 10,000 steps per day "research" came from, an eating disorder dietitian's take on nutrition tracking apps and much more. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual, medical or nutrition advice.* 
Nov 9, 2021
45 min
21: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part Four - Eating Disorder Myths
In the fourth installment of a four-part Halloween-themed series on why diet culture is spooky, Dani chats with Nick about breaking down eight myths about eating disorders that are harmful and can interfere with access to care, the importance of how we talk about bodies and warning signs and symptoms of eating disorders and much more.Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 
Oct 26, 2021
1 hr 7 min
20: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part Three - Misguided Nutrition Claims
In the third installment of a four-part Halloween-themed series on why diet culture is spooky, Dani chats with Nick about how difficult it is to make choices about what we consume when there is so much conflicting information, sneaky advertising, constantly fluctuating trends all guided by the fear of being inadequate if not being "healthy" or "thin" enough. Some basic, nutrition info is shared with emphasis on healing relationship with food. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 
Oct 19, 2021
1 hr
19: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part Two - Fatphobia
Dani chats with Nick for the second part of a four-part Halloween-themed series about how spooky diet culture is. This ep focuses on the definition of fatphobia,  why it's a systemic form of oppression that needs to be dismantled, ways to unlearn and make change, examples of ways to challenge fatphobic comments in the moment and much more. Link from this episode:7 Ways To Respond To Fatphobic Comments About Your Body Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 
Oct 12, 2021
54 min
18: Why Diet Culture is Spooky - Part One
Dani chats with Nick in the first of a four part Halloween-themed series about how spooky diet culture is. This ep goes back to the basics of why diet culture is frightening with suggestions on how to combat diet culture and fatphobia in the moment.Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 
Oct 5, 2021
47 min
17: On Our Society That Stops at Nothing to Promote Shrinking Bodies
Dani chats with Nick about recent articles reporting on the increase in childhood "obesity" due to the pandemic, a new study on weight loss actually promoting dieting, weight stigma statistics, "self-labeled" anti-diet dietitians, why it's a problem to promote weight loss along with body positivity and much more. Keep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 
Sep 29, 2021
41 min
16: Kirsten Ackerman
In this episode, Dani chats with Kirsten Ackerman, MS, RD, CDN  about intuitive eating, how transformative it is and not in the way we’re used to with diet culture, mindful movement, healing body image, the importance of consistent nutrition and much more.You can find Kirsten: On her website, Instagram: @theintuitive_rd and on her podcast: Intuitive BitesKeep up with me on Insta @dietitiandanicast for updates on the pod and more anti-diet content!Talk soon! Dani*This podcast is for informational and educational purposes and not intended to give individual medical or nutrition advice.* 
Sep 21, 2021
47 min
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