Kirsten Ackerman

35 min For this week's episode I'm talking with Virginia Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. We dive into topics like the rampant nature of orthorexia in diet culture as well as making space for bariatric surgery patients in the food and body image healing community. To find more of Virginia's work, check out virginiasolesmith.com and find her on Instagram and Twitter @v_solesmith. 35 min

by Kirsten Ackerman, MS, RDN on Aug 23, 2018 Feature Intuitive eating encourages internal regulation of the eating experience (REF). Unlike many traditional diets, intuitive eating encourages people to listen to and honor their internal cues for hunger and fullness.

Dieting has failed us. Let’s try another solution for obesity and chronic disease. The correlation between obesity and chronic disease is well established (Bacon & Aphramor 2011; Bombak 2014; Penney & Kirk 2015). Causality, however, is not so clear (Bombak 2014). For decades, efforts to fight chronic disease have focused primarily on obesity—encouraging dieting as the best way to lose weight.