The Culture Of It All! Podcast
The Culture Of It All!
E015 | Haunting Diet Myths: The Diet Industry Cycle That Keeps Us Afraid, Hungry & Invested
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E015 | Haunting Diet Myths: The Diet Industry Cycle That Keeps Us Afraid, Hungry & Invested

Season 2: The F-Words

In this episode, we’ll be exploring the cycle of fear and blame the diet industry has created and how this impacts our body image and relationship to food. We’ll also look at some of the nuances, including the erasure of fat folks from history, and why it appears to be socially acceptable to discriminate against someone based on their body size/weight. We’ll also take a look at how the diet industry uses fear based marketing practices to sell their products, and the outcomes when the ‘solution’ doesn’t work.

If you’d rather not hear my life, podcast and business update, skip forward to 12:21

Content Warning: use of the word o*esity within context at 13:40

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Chapters

00:00 Halloween Preparations and Personal Updates

07:02 Reflections on the Podcast Journey

12:09 Haunting Diet Myths: Introduction to the Topic

20:15 The Diet Industry Cycle Explained

32:03 Understanding Body Diversity and Acceptance

Discussion about this podcast

The Culture Of It All! Podcast
The Culture Of It All!
Your anti-diet sidekick and go-to resource as we explore what it really means to ditch diet culture whilst living life in a larger body. Your host, Melanie Knights will be sharing stories, busting diet culture myths, and breaking through the bullshit of the diet industry.
Discussing topics such as anti-fatness, body liberation, body positivity, media representation, and intuitive eating. We will create a foundation for bodily autonomy, and take actionable steps to advocate for, and honour our own needs so that we can take up space, challenge weight stigma, and live a more confident, comfortable and joyful fat life!