Jessica talks with Shantille Connolly, a senior health promotion specialist at UC Davis about their process of instituting a policy to make being weighed an opt-in measure at the clinic, rather than a default, and Shantille's future projects including a team focused on size inclusive care. Jessica also discusses boofing as a Wellness trend that is in for 2024 and shares that "food is medicine" should be out this year. You can contact the show at makingitawkwardpod@gmail.com Follow Jessica on Instagram <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/jessicawilson.msrd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@jessicawilson.msrd</a> and TikTok @byjessicawilson You can watch this episode at <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferer">https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod</a> How to support this podcast? Follow/subscribe, rate and review! Jessica's book: Notes: <a href= "https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/weight-stigma#:~:text=Weight%20stigma%20refers%20to%20the,in%20many%20areas%20of%20life%E2%81%A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Weight stigma website</a> at UCDavis <a href= "%E2%81%A0https://theaggie.org/2023/04/27/weight-measurements-no-longer-required-to-receive-care-at-student-health-and-counseling-services/%E2%81%A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Press release</a> <a href="https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/people/shantille-connolly" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"></a> shathompson@ucdavis.edu

"Impossible"; Being Black in the Eating Disorder Field with Dr Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens

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.