

Ep. 78 - Diet vs Anti-Diet Culture
Gabrielle's Airbnb woes
- Omar and Eric discuss Gabrielle Fundaro's Airbnb experience.
- It has unreliable Wi-Fi, a poor work setup, and an unhelpful host.
Diet Culture Defined
- Diet culture attaches morality to food and body size, valuing thinness over larger bodies.
- This system of beliefs perpetuates weight stigma and thin privilege.
Finding Common Ground
- Eric Helms emphasizes the importance of understanding in discussions about diet culture.
- Shared values often underlie disagreements, and respectful communication is key.
Things happen fast on the interwebs these days kids. You might have only recently learned what intuitive eating actually means. In the course of that, you might have come across the terms “diet culture” and “anti-diet culture”. If you didn’t know what the former was, then you certainly weren’t aware of the definition or possibly even the existence of the latter. In this episode returning guest, Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro helps us understand the roots, definitions, misunderstandings of, and the arguments between these “camps”. As is often the case when people don’t see eye to eye, there is typically something lost in translation. In this episode, we wade into that gap with Dr. Fundaro, who’s been working to bridge it.
Brene Brown's Ted Talk on Shame
Brene Brown's book on women and shame, I Thought It Was Just Me Helen Veit's book Modern Food, Moral Food Christy Harrison's book Anti-Diet Bridging the Gap Article Series