Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison


Latest Episodes

#314: Do Autoimmune Diets Really Work?
March 20, 2023

We discuss whether autoimmune diets really work, placebo effects and the problem with anecdotal evidence about diets, and the harmful side effects that can come from restricting what you eat. For lots

#313: Rethinking Wellness: Wellness Culture and Infertility, the Challenges of Baby Feeding, and Unpacking Food Sensitivities with Jenee Desmond-Harris
March 13, 2023

Jene Desmond-Harris, Slate Magazine's Dear Prudence advice columnist, joins us to discuss her path toward making peace with food and realizing she didnt have food sensitivities, how infertility can

[Repost] #279: What If You Can’t Stop Eating When Food Tastes Good?
March 06, 2023

Christy answers an audience question about what to do if you feel out of control with certain foods. We discuss the many reasons why you might feel compelled to eat to the point of discomfort, why you

[Repost] #278: Honoring Your Subtle Hunger Cues
February 27, 2023

Christy answers an audience question about how to avoid eating too little throughout the day and ending up in an unintentional restrict-rebound cycle. We discuss how to reframe the issue so that your

[Repost] #277: 5 Things You May Not Know About Emotional Eating
February 20, 2023

Are you doing intuitive eating wrong if you find yourself eating just because you feel bored/tired/sad/otherwise emotional, or just because you *want* to eat, without being hungry per se? Christy re

#312: Health Anxiety, Wellness Misinformation, and Media Literacy with Casey Gueren
February 13, 2023

Casey Gueren, award-winning health journalist and author of It's Probably Nothing, joins us to discuss how to deal with health anxiety, strategies for recognizing and avoiding wellness misinformation

#311: What If You're Eating When You're Not Hungry? And More
February 06, 2023

We discuss why intuitive eating is NOT the hunger-and-fullness diet, the real reason many of us eat when were not hungry, setting boundaries on food talk in a 12-step alcohol-recovery program, how

#310: Rethinking Wellness: Fitness Culture with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
January 30, 2023

Fitness and wellness historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela joins Christy to discuss her new book, Fit Nation; the historical shifts that made fitness go from being viewed as a narcissistic practice to be

#309: Workplace Diet Talk, Lifestyle Medicine, and More
January 23, 2023

Christy answers audience questions about how to deal with diet culture in the workplace, whether lifestyle medicine is compatible with an anti-diet approach, and whether she thinks diet foods should

#308: Planning an Elimination Diet? This Might Make You Think Again
January 16, 2023

Christy answers an audience question about how elimination diets can do damage to your mental and physical well-being, and how/whether to tell a doctor who put you on an elimination diet that it was h