Ep. 2 The Diet Culture to Eating Disorder Pipeline
Update: 2025-08-08
Description
✨ Episode Summary: In this episode, we explore how diet culture can lead to the development of disordered eating and eating disorders through a macro, mezzo, and micro lens. We share definitions, examples, key considerations, and practical tips for caregivers, clinicians, and clients.
🧰 What You’ll Learn:
- The roots of diet culture in other systems of oppression
- How diet culture shows up in communities, families, and schools
- How diet culture can trickle down to the individual level, moving disordered eating along the spectrum to an eating disorder
Timestamps
- 0:00 – Intro Teaser + Podcast Intro
- 1:10 – Intro to the Episode Topic
- 4:04 – Macro Lens: Diet Culture & Disordered Eating Definition, White Supremacy Culture History Lesson
- 13:50 – RFK Jr. Quote
- 16:11 – Craftiness of Diet Culture
- 19:24 – Mezzo Lens: How It Shows Up in Schools and Communities
- 26:21 – Micro Lens: Belonging, Behaviors Not Being a Problem, Heredity of EDs
- 32:27 – Tips for Caregivers, Clinicians, and Clients
- 37:53 – Outro
- 38:22 – Disclaimer
📚 Resources & Mentions:
- Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
- Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
- What is Diet Culture? blog post
- Food Insecurity & Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating blog post
- The Difference Between Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating blog post
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