Season 1 Episode 2 - The DL on Diet Culture With Laura Thomas

**Laura Thomas, PhD, PgDip, RNutr**

Founder of the London Centre for Intuitive Eating, host of the Don’t Salt My Game podcast, and author of *Just Eat It* and *How to Just Eat It*

This week’s guest is Laura Thomas! Make sure to tune in next week for another special guest.

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Laura Thomas, PhD, PgDip, RNutr, who is an expert in non-diet nutrition and is a leader in the Intuitive Eating world. Laura is founder of the London Centre of Intuitive Eating, which is a London based clinic of nutritionists and dietitians providing weight-inclusive, body affirming, trauma informed care for people to heal their relationship to food.

Laura is the author of two books, Just Eat It and her new book How to Just Eat It. Since 2016, Laura has hosted the popular podcast Don’t Salt My Game which speaks about diet trends and myths, Intuitive Eating, and lots of interesting important topics including intersectionality and the underlying systems of diet culture like racism and ableism. Laura was the nutrition consultant for the BBC documentary “Mind Over Marathon'', where she supported people who were suffering from mental health problems training for a marathon. She has appeared in numerous publications including Huffington Post, New Scientist, Men’s Health, The Guardian, and Red magazine.

In this episode we talk about:

🎇 What is body affirming care? And what’s the need for weight-inclusive healthcare?

🎇 What actually is Intuitive Eating and Laura’s journey to becoming a non-diet nutritionist

🎇 All the ways that diet culture is normalised

🎇 How the fit against diet culture doesn’t end with calling out influencers, and all the systems of oppression that underpin it (and why we need to be angry with those)

🎇 What social media gets wrong about the Body Positivity movement

🎇 A sneak peak into some activities in Laura’s new book How to Just Eat It

Season 1 Episode 2 - The DL on Diet Culture With Laura Thomas

Laura Thomas, PhD, PgDip, RNutr

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