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DNF Podcast

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DNF is a podcast from Zoë Rom
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Episodes

Your Diet Sucks - The Harms of Eating Disorder Myths

⁠⁠Find Your Diet Sucks wherever you get your podcasts!⁠ At least 30 million Americans have an eating disorder, but only 1 in 10 people gets the treatment they need. Why? Kylee and Zoë debunk common myths about eating disorders, from who they affect to how they’re treated. We dive into the history of eating disorders and how common misbeliefs about mental illness shape their treatment today. We examine how weight stigma impacts treatment and why so many EDs are considered “atypical.” Then, we off...

Oct 28, 202459 min

Your Diet Sucks - Alcohol and Athletics

⁠Find Your Diet Sucks wherever you get your podcasts!⁠ In this episode, Kylee and Zoë explore the complicated history that humans have with alcohol and athletics. We dive into the deep past (shoutout to our simian ancestors!) and see why scientists think humans developed a taste for something that seems counterproductive to passing on our genes (looking at you, Smirnoff blue raspberry). We try to parse out why alcohol is so closely tied to endurance sports and take a deep dive into what the rese...

Oct 25, 202448 min

Episode 12 - The Crack Up

In 2017, Hillary Allen took a fall during a race that almost ended her life, and her running career. She says the survival story really begins the day she took her first steps, and all the days after that. Hillary reflects on injury, survival and identity. Plus, Scott Fitzgerald cracks.

May 28, 202133 min

Episode 11 - Fail Better

Peter Sagal says he might not have been born to run, but he has used running throughout his life as a way of exploring success, failure, and all the life that happens in between.

Apr 22, 202130 min

Episode 10 - The Waste Land

Breaking a world record caused Mike Foote to realize he needed help. And, T. S. Eliot re-invents modern literature while depressed.

Feb 19, 202130 min

Episode 9 - Kintsugi

A divorce led Ben Gibbard to reexamine his creative approach to songwriting and trail running. Plus, a brief history of Japanese ceramic repair.

Nov 20, 202032 min
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