Episode 11 - Fail Better

⁠⁠Find Your Diet Sucks wherever you get your podcasts!⁠ At least 30 million Americans have an eating disorder, but only 1 in 10 people gets the treatment they need. Why? Kylee and Zoë debunk common myths about eating disorders, from who they affect to how they’re treated. We dive into the history of eating disorders and how common misbeliefs about mental illness shape their treatment today. We examine how weight stigma impacts treatment and why so many EDs are considered “atypical.” Then, we offer some practical solutions for fixing a f*cked-up system by debunking common misconceptions. 

⁠Find Your Diet Sucks wherever you get your podcasts!⁠ In this episode, Kylee and Zoë explore the complicated history that humans have with alcohol and athletics. We dive into the deep past (shoutout to our simian ancestors!) and see why scientists think humans developed a taste for something that seems counterproductive to passing on our genes (looking at you, Smirnoff blue raspberry). We try to parse out why alcohol is so closely tied to endurance sports and take a deep dive into what the research says about this substance (spoiler alert: three shots of whiskey do NOT make you better at running on a treadmill.)

⁠⁠Find Your Diet Sucks wherever you get your podcasts!⁠ Introducing Zoë's latest podcast project, Your Diet Sucks. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel uses running to overcome a drinking habit, and Jack Kerouac self-destructs.

In 2017, Hillary Allen took a fall during a race that almost ended her life, and her running career. She says the survival story really begins the day she took her first steps, and all the days after that. Hillary reflects on injury, survival and identity. Plus, Scott Fitzgerald cracks.

Peter Sagal says he might not have been born to run, but he has used running throughout his life as a way of exploring success, failure, and all the life that happens in between.

Breaking a world record caused Mike Foote to realize he needed help. And, T. S. Eliot re-invents modern literature while depressed.

A divorce led Ben Gibbard to reexamine his creative approach to songwriting and trail running. Plus, a brief history of Japanese ceramic repair.