Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith
By Virginia Sole-Smith
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Weekly conversations about how we dismantle diet culture and fatphobia, especially through parenting, health and fashion. (But non-parents like it too!) Hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of THE EATING INSTINCT.
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"Fat People Poop the Same Amount As You."
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May 02, 2024 |
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“Good Athletes Control Their Weight."
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Can You Wear Birkenstocks with Skinny Jeans?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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We Are Not Seeking Closet Perfection.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Is Weight Loss Surgery the "Easy Way Out?"
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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We Need a Fat American Girl Doll
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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"Can I Want to Lose Weight for a Good Reason?"
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Is Not Shopping A Diet?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Ballerina Farm of Kid Food Instagram
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Is "Mom Rage" Actually "Marriage Rage?"
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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It's Time for Book Gospel!
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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You Don't Have To Lose Weight to Improve Your Blood Sugar
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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When Fat Influencers Get Thinner
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Are Screens the New Sugar?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Does Sugar Weaken Your Immune System?
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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"We Only Like Change If It Makes Us Thin."
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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"You Cannot Fight Misogyny Without Fighting Fatphobia."
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Fat People Don't All Look Alike.
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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"I Can Eat Without Somebody Judging Me Now."
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Fat People Don't Need Fat Hammers
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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It's Time to Free the Jiggle
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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"We Needed To See a YA Heroine with PCOS."
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Bonkers TikTok Diet Nobody Needs
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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"It Felt Like I Could Never Be Healthy Enough."
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Not Every Piece of Nutrition Advice is B******t
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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"This is Not a Book About Body Positivity. This is Not a Book About Ballet."
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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I Couldn't Let You Miss the 45 Minute Poop Song
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Where Are All the Motherhood Songs
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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"We Have Only Recently Acknowledged That Female Athletes Need to Eat."
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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"Living in a Fat Body is Beautiful and Complicated Sensory Experience."
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Not Wearing Pants Yet
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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The Fat Theater Kids Survival Guide
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sexting is Safer Sex
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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All the Gnomes Are Fat
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Family Dinner SOS
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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"You Don't Have to Be Bleeding, You Could Just Not Want to Exercise."
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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It’s Not Your Body, It’s the Towel.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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He Asked, "Why Can't You Draw Normal People?"
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Weeds Are Not a Moral Failing
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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"I Don't Let My Son Eat Honey Nut Cheerios."
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The Problem Isn't Flaming Hot Cheetos, Part 2
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Problem Isn't Flaming Hot Cheetos, Part 1.
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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"Do I Tell My Kids I'm On a Weight Loss Drug?"
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Where Are All the Guys? (In Eating Disorder Treatment)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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"I've Been Writing Food Porn for a Year."
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Everybody Is Paying To Be in the Same Parade
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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When Beauty Work is a Rational Survival Strategy
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The Myth of "Full Recovery"
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May 25, 2023 |
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The Dream Is a Federal Fat Rights Law.
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May 18, 2023 |
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Why Are Men and Viking Grandmas
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May 11, 2023 |
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“Elimination Diets Are Not A Panacea.”
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May 04, 2023 |
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"I Want My Kid to Love Their Body. I Also Don't Want Them to Be Fat."
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The Myth of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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What If I Just Don't Want My Kid To Be Fat?
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The Myth of Equal Partnership
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Whiteness of Not Wanting to Diet Anymore.
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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How Do We Feel About Fat?
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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"White Supremacy, That’s the Culprit. Our Bodies Are Not the Problem."
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Should I Tell My 13-Year-Old to Take Smaller Bites?
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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"You Are Not Considered a Whole Person After a Certain Age."
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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"This Was Before It Was Normal for Makeup to Give You New Skin."
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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"I'm Nervous to Take My Kids to the Doctor Now."
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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"It's Not About Growing The Biggest Booty"
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Shining Light On What We Need to See
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Is It Ever Okay to Eat at Chick-fil-A?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Your 2023 Anti-Diet Resolutions
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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"We are Not Living in a World Where Too Many People are Trying Too Many Things to Defend Fat People."
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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How to Tell if Your Resolution Is Rooted in Diet Culture
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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"I Don’t Have to Manage the Expectations of Another Person on My Body"
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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"I Love a Beautiful Home, But it Doesn't Rank Higher than Being Able to Function in My Space."
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Winter Coats, Holiday Parties, and Good Comebacks
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Can We Conquer Anti-Fat Bias?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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“The Assumption is I’m to Blame for How She Looks.”
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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We Can Trust Neurodivergent Children About Their Bodies.
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Where Are All the Plus Size Kids' Clothes?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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It's OK to Want More for Your Daughter than Sexy Donut Waitress
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Calling Kids Lazy, Building Fat Community, and Halloween Costumes
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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"My Daughter Now Asks Me: 'Why Are You Shaving Your Legs?'"
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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"I Sometimes Wonder What I Would Be Capable of if My Legs Didn’t Hurt."
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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It's Time to Talk About School Lunch (Again)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Feeling Bloated, Sober September, and Fall Soft Pants
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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The Myth of the Maternal Instinct
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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When Dieting Is the Family Business
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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“All Are Welcome Here” Is Very Different From “This Was Made With You in Mind”
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Is Sugar Really Addictive?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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“Budgeting is Diet Culture For Your Money”
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Perfect Roast Chicken Does Not Exist.
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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"We Couldn't Have a Campaign That Was Just For Fat People."
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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"The Way Our Hair Grows Out of Our Heads is a Problem for People."
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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"Well, if we have to break the law, how are we going to do it?"
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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You Never Need to Wear Skinny Yoga Pants
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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"Health Is About More Than Food. Health Is About The Whole Child."
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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On Reclaiming Comfort Food
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Why Anti-Thin Jokes are Anti-Fat
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Nobody Asked Mark Bittman Why He Needed Childcare.
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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"Skincare Culture is Dewy Diet Culture"
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Do We Owe It To Our Kids To Be Healthy?
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May 26, 2022 |
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Skinny Husbands, Bad Bras, and Talking Bodies with Kids.
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May 19, 2022 |
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Essential Labor and Essential Pleasure, with Angela Garbes
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May 12, 2022 |
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Calf Liver Gummies Are Not Delicious.
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Stop Apologizing For How You Cook
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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“The More You Feel Like You Don’t Have Permission to Eat It, the More You Will Crave It."
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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You're Missing: Homeschool Diets and Monomeals!
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The Myth of Visible Abs
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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When The Pregnancy App Talks About "Belly-Only Weight Gain," We Have Work To Do.
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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"They Say 'Failure to Thrive' but Moms Hear 'Failure To Feed.'"
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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It's Time to Stop Panic Giving.
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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This Diet Wants You To Throw Out All Your Food.
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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"If My Daughter Wanted to 'Eat Healthier,' I Would Respond Like She Wanted to Smoke Cigarettes."
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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What Thin Fashion Designers Don't Know About Fat Bodies.
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Getting The Thin White Momfluencer Out of the Room.
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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"Using Weight as Our Main Marker of Health Isn't Working."
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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The Value and Visibility of Momfluencer Bodies
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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"We All Know Too Much About Nutrition."
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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"The Goal Is Not A Kid Who Eats Everything."
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The New Burnt Toast Podcast!
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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"Healthcare for Fat People is Based on the Premise that it's Acceptable to Kill Us to Make Us Thin."
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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"Ankles Don't Get Fat at the Same Rate as Butts."
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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"I Spent My Whole Life Wondering if There Was Room for Fat Folks to Fall in Love."
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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"You’re Showing Up in the World, and Nobody is Fooled," with Dacy Gillespie of Mindful Closet
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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"Can I Make My Kid's Candy Disappear?" with Amy Palanjian of Yummy Toddler Food
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Fatness Is Not The Trauma, with Rachel Millner
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Unlearning Diet Culture at School, with Gwen Kostal
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Writing Disordered Eating, with Alyson Gerber
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Building a World for Fat Bodies
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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It's Nice to Be Soft, With Tyler Feder
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Maybe You Just Think Rice Makes You Sluggish? With Christy Harrison
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Don't Make Your Kid Finish The Soup.
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Reclaiming Pasta with Anna Sweeney
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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"That's Unethical as Hell."
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Why We Seek Thin Privilege, with Aubrey Gordon
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Decoding Growth Charts with Anna Lutz, RD, MPH
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Why Is Getting Dressed So Hard. (Part 2)
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May 19, 2021 |
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On Trusting Little Kids To Eat
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Apr 28, 2021 |