Food Psych #306: How to Handle the Onslaught of Diet Culture This New Year

Christy offers 5 tips for dealing with diet evangelists and diet-culture messaging this time of year.

Resources Mentioned

• Subscribe to the weekly newsletter, Food Psych Weekly 

• Submit your questions for a chance to have them answered in the weekly newsletter

• My online course, Intuitive Eating Fundamentals

• My first book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

• My upcoming book, The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

• The Making Peace with Food Card Deck

• Subscribe to the podcast here

• Episode 300, on how to set boundaries around diet talk

• Evidence of the harms of social media

• The Wall Street Journal’s investigative reporting about Facebook

• Whistleblower Frances Haugen’s congressional testimony

• Studies (CW: weight-stigmatizing language) showing that social media and YouTube facilitate weight-based bullying and attacks on higher-weight people

• Ad-blocking software

• DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine

• My list of providers specializing in disordered eating