Researcher <a href="https://www.elijahcastle.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Elijah Castle</a> joins Jessica to talk about the research landscape for BMI and gender affirming surgeries and what it (doesn't) show us. They discuss weight stigma, the savior complex of some surgeons, and what they are hoping to hear at the USPATH conference. <a href= "https://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2023/10/30/chico-state-ai-study-ultra-processed-foods-20000-leagues-under-the-seas-at-folsom-lake-college/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"></a> You can contact the show at <a href= "mailto:makingitawkwardpod@gmail.com" target= "_blank">makingitawkwardpod@gmail.com</a> Follow Jessica on Instagram <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/jessicawilson.msrd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@jessicawilson.msrd </a>and TikTok <a href="">@byjessicawilson</a> You can watch this episode on Spotify and at <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod" target= "_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod</a> How to support this podcast? Follow/subscribe, rate and review! Buy Jessica's book It's <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Its-Always-Been-Ours-Rewriting/dp/0306827697/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FZ3MEXLZGYGI&keywords=its+always+been+ours&qid=1673217246&sprefix=its+always+been+ou%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Always Been Ours</a>.

Is Non-binary Identity a 3rd Gender Category?; USPATH Conference Reflections

What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration.
From her conversation with the Make America Healthy Again spokesperson to the Oregon beef farmer this podcast connects it all. Listen each week as she brings something new to the conversation and at times makes it awkward.