Real Talk With Dana | Nutrition, Health & Fitness With A Healthy Side Of Sarcasm

Daina Trout, the CEO of Health Ade kombucha, joins Dana today for a fun conversation about startups, career changes towards the health field, and how fermented foods and kombucha impact gut health! We’re digging deep into fermented foods, prebiotics, and post-biotics, and why fermented foods are so integral for gut health. What should we be...

Cristina and Dana do a deep dive on: “what is healthy, and what is healthism? This episode is an invitation to dig into what we think about health. How do we define healthy for ourselves, and where does that language come from? What are the assumptions behind our beliefs about health? We talk about how...

Brenna O’Malley, a Registered Dietitian and the Founder of The Wellful, joins Dana and Cristina today to talk about how to know if your health journey is actually healthy, and red flags on your health journey. How do we navigate the balance between adding in health-promoting behaviors in a neutral way, and those behaviors coming...

Dr. Lindsay Kite joins Dana and Cristina to dig deep into self-objectification and body image, how to build body image resilience in the face of body image disruptions, and when well-meaning body compliments do more harm than good. *We’re re-sharing this episode from summer 2021, because we found it to be so incredibly helpful with...

Jenna Werner is a registered dietitian and owner of Happy Strong Healthy, a private practice that uses intuitive eating to help clients heal their relationship with food, fitness, body and self. Today Dana and Jenna dig into how to evaluate our relationship with fitness, how we know if our exercise habits are becoming unhealthy –...

This week, we discuss how the way set point theory is used in healthcare and the ED recovery community is rooted in fatphobia, and can be a contributing factor in preventing people from fully recovering. Many recovery modalities are based on assumptions on how ‘sick’ someone could really be based on their body size, which...

This week on the podcast, Cristina interviews Nicole Cruz, RD about how challenging it can be to balance exposing your child to eating a nutrient dense diet and allowing all foods fit approach.  We also dive into how pressuring our children at the dinner table to try a certain food can backfire, and what you...

Becca King is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who is passionate about helping adults who struggle with ADHD and binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues to find food freedom and improve their self-esteem. We talk to Becca about how she uses the principles of Intuitive Eating and a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition for ADHD,...

Ayten Salahi is a GI-specialized Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), culinary nutritionist, and intersectional food policy advocate. In today’s episode we’re chatting about intersectional food policy and how we can tackle plant-based gut health nutrition from a neutral nutrition approach! Find Ayten: Instagram: @asa.nutrition and @planetaryhealthcollective Website: www.aysanutrition.com Ayten Salahi, MS, RDN is a GI-specialized Registered...

We get asked a lot if we’re going to become certified IE coaches or why we’re not Intuitive Eating coaches. In this episode we’re discussing our issues with the way intuitive eating is mostly represented on social media (spoiler alert: it can seem very toxic and non-inclusive to many), and the biggest differences between our...

Cristina chats with Elizabeth Davenport and Anna Lutz of Sunny Side Up Nutrition about the cornerstones of raising confident eaters in our children. How can we leave diet culture out of mealtimes when we are feeding our kids? How can we model a positive body image and relationship with food so we can do everything we...

We’re back again for a part 2 to last week’s episode where we’re digging into your body image questions! In this episode we’re tackling your questions about how to reconcile wanting to change your body or lose weight and intuitive eating. If you’re someone who is on (or considering) an intuitive eating or non-diet journey...

Time for another listener questions episode on “extra weight” and accepting body changes with ‘all foods fit’ approach! In this episode we’re focusing specifically on body image questions we have from you all. We’re continuing our discussion with some follow-up comments from our “Is Weight a Symptom?” episode (listen here). Then, we dig into a...

If you’re in the non-diet, HAES instagram space – you may have seen a lot going on over the past few weeks regarding some very problematic interactions between Lindo Bacon, the author of the book Health At Every Size, and several other individuals. We wanted to address this directly so we can be very clear...

On today’s episode we’re doing a TikTok nutrition trends takedown with Claire Chewning –  Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and the owner and founder of Yours Chewly Nutrition. We’re chatting about the top TikTok nutrition trends that need to die, nutrition ‘advice’ that is actually disordered eating behaviors which is encouraged or labeled as...

Brooke Miller, RD, CLC and Cristina discuss how complicated parenthood can be; especially when it comes to navigating all of the confusing nutritional advice, expectations, and body image triggers that come up for mothers throughout pregnancy and their postpartum period. How do you navigate the biggest pregnancy & postpartum nutrition misconceptions? They dive into how the...

Dana & Cristina investigate the validity of the question – “Is weight a symptom?” from an integrative perspective, a functional medicine perspective, a traditional medicine perspective. They then dig into how to approach this conversation from a Whole-Hearted Eating perspective, using their clinical experience and their signature non-diet, HAES approach. For our entire lives, we...

 Amanda Montalvo from Hormone Healing RD and Dana dig deep into a clinical approach to stress, hormone health, and mineral imbalances! Amanda talks us through: what are the biggest contributors, or causes, to developing mineral imbalances? How can these imbalances contribute to our symptoms and ability to cope with stress? How does this tie in...

Dana and Cristina dig into the question: how do we figure out if something that is inherently restrictive might be appropriate for this season of your life? Can you manage chronic health conditions without food restriction? What are other ways we can go about managing our symptoms? If we do have a medical reason for...

On this week’s episode with Nicola Salmon we’re discussing how to navigate pregnancy, fertility, and medical weight stigma with a fat positive approach.  Nicola, the author of Fat and Fertile, breaks down the traditional medical research that is often used as a barrier for individuals in a larger body to access fertility treatment and shares...