Fat Talk with Virginia-Sole Smith

The Messy Intersection

Today’s interview is with Virginia Sole-Smith, author of the brand-new book Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture. Virginia writes the Substack Burnt Toast and is also the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. In this episode, we’re chatting about how body ideals interrupt the task of raising kids to have a healthy relationship with food, how the Division of Responsibility can be co-opted into a diet, how to get dads on board with the anti-diet movement and more.

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Resources mentioned in this interview:

• Virginia’s newsletter pieces:

  • What If I Can't Say "Fat?"

  • What Instagram Gets Wrong About Feeding Your Kids

  • "I Love a Beautiful Home, But it Doesn't Rank Higher than Being Able to Function in My Space."

• Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet

• The American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report: Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents

• Virginia’s opinion piece for The New York Times Why the New Obesity Guidelines for Kids Terrify Me

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