Shoulders Down
When you live in the diet mindset, you spend much of your time living in your head- constantly tallying, dwelling, and stressing over your food and lifestyle choices. When you become an intuitive eater, you learn to drop into your body and start living shoulders down. The territory below your shoulders contains your innate wisdom and power. Shoulders Down is a podcast designed to teach you how to harness your intuition to govern not just how you eat but also how you live. Shoulders Down Podcast is hosted by Anti-Diet Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Leah Kern, who works with clients to heal their relationships with food in her private practice, Leah Kern Nutrition. Disclaimer: All content in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The information and education provided is not intended or implied to supplement or replace professional medical treatment, advice, and/or diagnosis.
Shoulders Down
🧪 Weight-Inclusive Dietetics Education & The Troubles with Nutrition Research with Dr. Lizzy Pope
This week we are joined by Dr. Lizzy Pope, anti-diet dietitian and director of the dietetic program at The University of Vermont (my alma mater). In this episode, we discuss:
- Lizzy's story with her relationship with food and body
- Lizzy's transition away from the weight-normative approach in nutrition
- How Lizzy has changed her curriculum to reflect the new body of research on weight-inclusive nutrition
- General trends Lizzy has observed in terms of her dietetic students relationships with food over the course of their time in undergrad
- Lizzy's background working in a prominent nutrition research lab and her thoughts about the experience in hindsight
- The many issues with nutrition research and the pieces that are often missing from the picture
Before diving into this week's guest interview, I answer a listener question on how to eat out at a restaurant without feeling out of control. Click here to download the FREE resource I mention while answering the listener question.
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