Seasonal Prophylaxis Against Dieting BS

Predictably with the closing of each year, the annual weight loss and diet schemes assault is not far behind. Before it descends upon us when the calendar flips to January 1st, I want to offer some seasonal prophylaxis with the list of podcast and articles below.

Open umbrellas on rainy day

Shields for the annual diet BS season!

Shields up!

👂 Resolved: Your Anti-Diet New Year. WUNC. A 3-part series exploring diet culture with gentle nudges to live in our bodies instead of judging them. 

 

👀 Diet messaging is everywhere right now. Here's how to tune it out. Vox. The title says it all.  

 

👀 Will We Ever Escape ‘Before’ and ‘After’ Photos? The Cut. They sure are effective at making us stop and look but a snapshot rarely tells the whole story.   
 

👀 How to encourage Americans to eat healthier without body-shaming. NPR. Writer and anti-diet advocate Virginia Sole-Smith shines a light on how just focusing on nutrients can lead us to miss the bigger picture.  

Excerpt above is from the December 2022 Hey 起! (pronounced hey hey) newsletter. You can view the issue here or subscribe to the newsletter here.

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