Ep. 14 Unpacking Diet Culture & Body Image w/ HER Expert Panelists, Fall Roundtable

The third HER Health Collective Roundtable of 2021 focused on exploring diet culture and body image issues.⁠ Our quarterly roundtables bring the HER Expert Panelists together to share their knowledge and discuss important health topics that affect mothers. It’s our hope that shedding light on this important topic and having open discussions like this, will help reduce the number of women who are silently struggling.

The 2021 HER Expert Panelists involved in this discussion include:

Katherine Andrew – MPH, RD, LDN – Registered Dietitian Nutritionist – Areas of Specialty: gut health, food sensitivities, hormones, family food dynamics & intuitive eating
Dr. Erkada DeRouen – MD – Family Medicine – Lifestyle medicine board certified physician – Associate Medical Director Telemedicine, focus: health equity and diversity and inclusion in the telemedicine and start up space.
Dr. Lisa Folden – DPT – Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness – Mom Life Coaching
Kerry Jones – RD – Pediatric and Maternal Nutrition – Milestones Nutrition
Dr. Susan Lovelle – MD, MACM – Holistic Wellness – Founder, CEO Premiere Wellness
Anna Lutz – MPH, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S – Lutz Alexander and Associates Nutrition Therapy – Non-diet Nutritional Counseling (HAES & Intuitive Eating)

Topic Summary:

History of diet culture
Definition of diet culture
Evolution of the “perfect body”
Weight bias, social status and power
Co-opting of HAES terms
Financial influence of diet culture
Inflammation and weight, BMI and weight, outdated and questionable research
Dealing with statements that promote diet culture and spread fat phobic beliefs
The rise of orthorexia nervosa
How each expert personally practices body appreciation

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