MoF Mini: Diet Culture

Image of episode cover. The top is a colorful design in with abstract shapes, MoF logos, and the cartoon Venuses from the MoF logo, and plates and scales (to align with the topic). Below it, the Matter of Fat logo is at the bottom left atop a teal rectangle. To the middle/right “diet culture” appears (this minisode’s title).

show notes:

Co-hosts Cat Polivoda and Saraya Boghani discuss diet and weight loss culture in this MoF Mini.  Matter of Fat is a body positive podcast with Midwest sensibilities! Full episodes highlight community voices with a focus on body size, body positivity, + fat liberation.

The gals chat about travel back to recorded diet beginnings, explore the whys and hows of it today, and position ways to push back on it whilst laughing. #VinegarBoiSummer 

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References for this mini:

Recognizing and Resisting Diet Culture
Ragen Chastain, 2019, NEDA

The new WW is about wellness. Critics say is Diet Culture in disguise. 
Allyson Chiu, 2018, The Washington Post

Watching Our Weight Could Be Killing Us 
Virginia Heffernan, 2019, WIRED

Embodied: Deconstructing Diet Culture and the Science Behind It
Josie Taris & Anita Rao, 2019, WUNC 

Diets Are a Lot Like Religion
Melissa Dahl, 2015, The Cut

What is Diet Culture? + The Life Thief
Christy Harrison 

The Long, Strange History of Dieting Fads
Melissa Wdowik, 2017, The Conversation

Jessica Wilson, MS. RD.She/Her
Dietitian.Consultant.Activist.  @jessicawilson.msrd

“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.” ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

HAES - Health at Every Size Info: HAES Community website , HAES Manifesto excerpt from Health at Every Size by Dr. Lindo Bacon , HAES Principles from ASDAH