Women who are pregnant or postpartum should not be dieting and yet, many women do, thanks to diet culture and weight stigma. In this episode, I chat with Lindsay Stenovec, certified eating disorder dietitian about the pressures women face to “get their pre-baby body back.” We share personal experiences with postpartum depression and weight stigma… [Read More]

Continuing my women’s health series, today we’re talking about sex. My guest is one of my favorite “sexpert” authors Emily Nagoski, sex educator and author of the New York Times bestseller Come As You Are: the surprising new science that will transform your sex life. Among the gems in our conversation today: how our sex-negative culture came… [Read More]

The things I appreciate so much about summertime include, longer days, warmer weather, and more time to take in all the goodness with my two girls. But with a busy work schedule and all the other to-do’s that come with keeping a house in order and a young family organized, it’s easy to let the… [Read More]

Bernie is back and we chat about weight and body conversations in the media, including my latest Washington Post story “What if doctors stopped weighing their patients? Healthcare might improve.” and the amazing Self digital issue on weight. All the stories in the package are worth the read, starting with the letter from the editor… [Read More]

Racism harms pregnant women— toxic stress harms pregnant women. What can we do about it in the short term and the long run? Continuing my women’s health series, I’m excited that my guest today is writer and activist Miriam Zoila Pérez. In 2016, Miriam gave a TED Talk: How Racism is Harming Pregnant Women–and What… [Read More]

In my latest Washington post article I ask the question, What if physicians stopped weighing patients? Here are some key points from the article. “What if doctors stopped using BMI as the trigger for conversations about behavior changes and instead collaborated with their patients on the importance of maintaining healthy habits, regardless of their weight? This approach would… [Read More]

As part of my women’s health series, I chat to Maya Dusenbery about her new book, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. We spend our conversation talking about the book and all that she discovered about the history of ignoring and/or disbelieving women’s pain… [Read More]

I’m busting 5 common “bad food” myths When it comes to healthy eating, all too often we’re drawn to calling individual foods “good” or “bad” — labels that don’t quite fit because what really matters is our eating patterns and cultivating a joyful relationship to food that respects our preferences, cultural significance, and budgets. But… [Read More]

Dietland is a wickedly funny and extraordinarily timed satire which premieres tonight, Monday 4 June at 9PM on AMC. It’s based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-selling, critically acclaimed novel of the same name. While we eagerly await Episode 1, I’m delighted to say that Sarai is my guest on the podcast today! The heroine of the… [Read More]