What Anti-Diet Gets Wrong with Jessica Wilson, MS, RD

You’ve heard us grapple with how diet culture has impacted us and shaped how we feed our families, but is talk of diet culture, body positivity, and intuitive eating a distraction from understanding the structures and systems of oppression (or worse: a tool that reinforces those structures and systems)? We talk to Jessica Wilson, MS, RD, and author It’s Always Been Ours, to start unpacking this question — and more.

Links from this episode

• All about Jessica Wilson
• Jessica’s book, It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
• Jessica on Instagram, @jessicawilson.msrd
• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison 
• The AAP childhood obesity guidelines, “Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity”

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