Making It Awkward
By Jessica Wilson, MS RD
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What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration.
From her conversation with the Make America Healthy Again spokesperson to the Oregon beef farmer this podcast connects it all. Listen each week as she brings something new to the conversation and at times makes it awkward.
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Tradwives, Motherhood and Traditional Values; Book Club: Yesteryear Part 1
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May 28, 2026 |
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Re-release! Pronatalism, Eugenics, Fertility and Climate Justice with Dr. Eoin Flaherty
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May 21, 2026 |
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Anti-Hunger Policy and MAHA's Creep into Public Health with Meghan Cichy, MPH. RD.
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May 14, 2026 |
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The People vs Poison Rally RoundUp with Trampus Harmon
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May 07, 2026 |
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Re-release: The Ultra-Processed Food Hysteria to Trad Wife Pipeline with Lindsay Lee Wallace
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Glyphosate & the People vs Poison Rally: Fear vs Facts
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Food Fearmongering at the Center for Science in the Public Interest with Sherene Chou, MS RD
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Having Grown Up with Jillian Michaels, Gen Z is Healing
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Meeting a MAHA Mom in the Middle with Leslie Voorhees Means
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Debating Jillian Michaels and Winning with Tigress Osborn
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Jubilee's Surrounded Explained and Jillian Michael's Unhinged Right Turn
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Leveling Down: Levels Health, CGMs and the False Promises of Data-Driven Health with Selena Salfen and Meghan Cichy
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Casey Means Went to Congress, Will She Be Our Next Surgeon General? With Meghan Cichy MPH RDN and Selena Salfen MPH RDN
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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The Food Triangle's "Healthy Fats" and Olive Oil 101 with Dr. Selina Wang
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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What Mike Tyson's MAHA Super Bowl Ad is Really Saying; with Tigress Osborn, NAAFA Executive Director
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Heated Rivalry: Parasociality, Straight Women's Sexuality, and the Cultural Response with Lindsay Lee Wallace
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Heated Rivalry: Queerness, Coming Out and the Hags That Move the Story Along with Blake Flaugher, MPH
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Bonus Episode: Community Commitment and MAHA Hypocrisy; F*** ICE
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Jessica's Monch Monch Ad & Dr. Robert Lustig's Fiber Fail
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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The Manly Man's Inverted Food Triangle: Dissecting the Dietary Guidelines with Meghan Cichy MPH, RDN.
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Thought Hygiene: Manifesting, Magical Thinking and OCD with Lindsay Lee Wallace
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Childfree By Choice; Joyful, Unapologetic Childfree Women Frighten the Patriarchy
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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The Caucacity of the Mediterranean Diet with Sherene Chou, MS. RDN.
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Confinement Nannies and MAHA's Luxury of Taking From Other Cultures with Sherene Chou, MS., RD.
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Calley Means is In Over His Head and Giving True Crime Vibes with Selena Salfen, MFA., MPH., RDN.
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Cheryl Hines: The Sad Beige Life of a Dangerous Optimist with Alison Pill and Natalie Ingraham
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Re-Release: Re-Grifting: Casey and Calley Means; Taking Truemed to the White House with Selena Salfen, MPH, RDN
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Autism Research Ethics and the Exploitation of Alternative Stats with Jocelyn Green
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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One Mother's Quest to Help Autistic Kids Lose Their Diagnosis with Dr. Theresa Lyons
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Bubonic and Iconic: Plague History--From Rodents to Racism with Dr. Bethany Johnson
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Autism Solved; Conspiracy Ken Strikes Again
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Out of Institutions and Into Society; Community Mental Health Treatment with Kyle Davis, MSW, LICSW
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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MAHA Won't Pay For a Candy Bar, But We're Paying For Measles; Dr. Carole 2.0
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Re-Release! Poppers 101, RFK Jr, B*tt Stuff and the State of Sex Ed with Blake Flaugher, MPH
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Fauci Needs to Be Locked Up! With "The Terrorist Therapist," Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H.
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Fetishization of Asian Women and Subverting Stereotypes with Kaila Yu
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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The MAHA Strategy Report: Policy Amateur Hour with Trampus Harmon, Selena Salfen, MPH RD, and Meghan Cichy, MPH RD
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Ultra-Processed Food Hysteria, Reader Meltdowns, and Nutrition Reporting with Jamie Ducharme!
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Re-Grifting: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint and the Cult of Longevity with Jen Jacobs
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Wearable Devices and "the Delusion of Knowledge" with Dr. Maisha Davis
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Re-Release! Part 2: "No food is better than bad food" says UCSF's Dr. Lustig
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Ketogenic Diets For Epilepsy: Jessica's Keto Experience with Dr. Lexi Brown
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Constant Glucose Monitoring and the Levels App; an Experiment with Selena Salfen MPH RD
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Re-release: "No food is better than bad food" says UCSF's Dr. Lustig. Part 1
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The Womanosphere, Food Politics and the Next Body Ideal
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The Womanosphere, Cuteservatives, and Choice Feminism with Cecily Nelson-Alford
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Re-Release! Queerness, Christianity, & 50% Off Ozempic for Pride!? with Kent Thomas, MSW
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Holding Onto Hope and Humanity; ICE, Palestine and Black Liberation
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Re-Grifting: Paul Saladino and His Carnivore Creep with Beef Farmer Trampus Harmon
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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The First MAHA Report: What's In, What's Out, and What's Wrong with Selena Salfen, MPH, RDN and Meghan Cichy, MPH, RDN
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Re-release!: Making It Awkward at UCSF's Trans Health Summit, with Calvin Gilbert, FNP
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May 29, 2025 |
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100 Days of Hellth and the MAHA Commission with Meghan Cichy, MPH, RDN and Selena Salfen, MPH, RDN
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May 01, 2025 |
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Beef Tallow and the Ethics of Colostrum Supplements with Dr. Sarah Dougherty and Trampus Harmon
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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5G, Conspiracies and the Post-Truth Era with Dr. Eoin Flaherty of Maynooth University
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Re-release! Making America Healthy Again; Part 2
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Great British Bake-Off's Mike Wilkins on Farming and Queer Life in the UK
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Crack, Cheetos & Cigarettes; Soda Taxes Pt. 2 with Blake Flaugher MPH and Raeann Bowlds MPH
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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MAHA Moms, Measles and Medical History with Dr. Bethany Johnson
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Share Diabetes with Maria? Soda Taxes Pt 1 with Dr. Kelly Brownell
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Re-Grifting: Dr. Andrew Huberman's Long Con with Tessa Rapaczynski
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Bonus: Eating Disorder Awareness Week x Black History Month: Me Little Me Returns
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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#Farmlife at Harmon and Son Beef! The Trump Administration's Impact on Farmers and the Food Supply
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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An Intro to Farm Subsidies and Cheese Caves! With Mackenzie Behrle
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Dad Content then The Guy Who Helped Coin the Phrase That Led Us to Fascism
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Conspiracy Ken Gets Confirmed- RFK Jr. Will Never Be Ken-Enough
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Re-Grifting: Dr. Mark Hyman
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Bird Flu, Biology, Raw Milk & Pet Safety with Dr. Sarah Dougherty, DVM
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Raw Milk Divide with Farmer Trampus Harmon
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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We Saw This Coming; Glancing Back and Gearing Up for 2025
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Neurodivergence and Girl Dinner with Dr. Lexi Brown-Re-release
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Flavor Maxiamalists and Minimalists in America with Pops
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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MSG, spice and all things nice!
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Should We Stop Eating Seed Oils? With Dr. Selina Wang
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The Joy of Reading Romance and the Bliss of a Happy Ending (Re-Release)
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Going Wild on Health and Fertility with Alison Pill
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Election Reflections; Father Daughter Edition
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Treatment in the Real World; Me Little Me Debuts! with Elizabeth Ayiku
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Curlfriends! Hair, Identity, Health and Fat Lib with Whitney Trotter and Tigress Osborn
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Making America Healthy Again; Part 1 with Jeff Hutt
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Can Nutrition Policy Be Purchased? With Sherene Chou
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Vicki Gonzalez Talks Breast Cancer at 40 and Reminds Us to Get Our Boobs and Bits Checked
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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What a TIME!; "Feedback" & Lessons, Plus Race, Class and Lunchables ft. Patrilie Hernandez
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Minisode: Making (Dollars and) Sense of Ultraprocessed Foods?
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Netflix's The Boyfriend & The Chicken Smoothie of it All with Kent Thomas
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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"Smoke & Mirrors"; Food Elitism and Wellness Culture With Shana Spence, MS, RDN
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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"How Dare She Be Phenomenal!" Women's Sports and Gender Panic with Dr. Naima Reddick
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Making it Awkward Turns 1; A look back at the first season
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Re-Release: Jessica's Ultra Processed Food Diet Results with Amy Fletcher
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Hedonism, Palatability, and the Science-ification of "Junk Food;" Same advice, different packaging.
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Eating Disorders, Dopamine, Salience, & The Status Quo with Molly Robbins
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Sex is the Sixth Vital Sign; HIV, PrEP, and Disclosure with Pablo Sarmiento, NP
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Eating Disorders, Food Addiction, Hyperpalatability, and Mental Health with Dr. David Wiss
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Love on the Spectrum! with Jessica and Her Spouse
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Salsa is a Vegetable!; Reclaiming Our Cultural Foods with Dalina Soto, RD
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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NPR Told Us To Eat Like Peasants; Its Living Better Series was Good for Clicks and Giggles
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May 30, 2024 |
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Tight Sphincters; on Being "Divisive" in the Eating Disorder Field with Dr. Deb Burgard
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May 23, 2024 |
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Final Thoughts & Who is Anti-Diet for?; With Jaye Rochon and Cara Harbstreet, MS RD
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May 16, 2024 |
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Rage Farming and Sh*tting on Women; with Clara Nosek
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May 09, 2024 |
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Neurodivergence, "Picky Eating" and ARFID with Naureen Hunani, RD
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May 02, 2024 |
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Anti-Diet Dietitians Made Cereal Ads, Then Things Got Awkward; with Sasha Chavkin
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Pineapple Overthrow Butter Mochi and Hawaiian Tourism with Daphne K. Jenkins
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Ultra Processed Fridays and Southern Food; a dad and daughter chat
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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GLP-1s, Diabetes and How Whiteness Works
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate? With Dr. Chukwuemeka Nwuba
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Writing the Next Book And Not Settling in Love with Chrissy King
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Live, Laugh, Languish; Jessica Wrote a Book and Then it Got Awkward with Alison Pill
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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BMI Cutoffs for Gender Affirming Surgery; Kindness is Not Liberation with Isaac and Dr. Zo Amaro Jimenez
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Pivot: Food Heaven to Diabetes Digital with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Why are there BMI cutoffs for Gender affirming surgery? With Dr. Blair Peters.
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Fat Liberation and Size Freedom Policies with Tigress Osborn
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Food & Body Stuff in the Spotlight and Backstage with Stephanie Lexis and Libby Parker
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Litigation and Legacy; Part 2 With Dr. Whitney Trotter and Meghan Cichy, MPH, RDN
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Diet Evangelism: Netflix's vegan twin experiment
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Litigation and Legacy with Steven Dunn; Part 1
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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"Impossible"; Being Black in the Eating Disorder Field with Dr Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Create a Policy to Reduce Anti-Fatness At The Doctor's Office and on Campus with Shantille Connolly, MPH CHES
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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My Body, ages 4-10. It was too much and very awkward.
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Books...But Make it Awkward, with Shana and Maya
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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"#bannedbodies--AI's Social Media Discrimination with Jen McLellan"
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Jen Jacobs, Editor Extraordinaire
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Babe, have you eaten today? With @yourdietitianbff
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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I Asked My Dad About Dehumanization
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Is Non-binary Identity a 3rd Gender Category?; USPATH Conference Reflections
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Research on BMI and Gender Affirming Care with Elijah Castle
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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What Makes Something News? With Lindsay Lee Wallace
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Alison Pill is Making it Awkward in Film and TV
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Ultra-Processed Parenting; Formula Feeding with Kent Thomas and Dr. Natalie Ingraham
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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But What IS an Ultra-Processed Food? with Amy Fletcher
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Feeling Aligned in Queer Fashion, with Mahlah Catline
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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"Be the unexpected"
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Introducing Making It Awkward!
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Jul 22, 2023 |