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085. Healthcare is Political, but Health Isn’t with Shana Minei Spence, MS, RDN, CDN

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It can feel beyond frustrating to live in the diet culture infested world that we live in. Adding in the layers of healthism, elitism, discrimination, racism, and more can make it feel like a nightmare to attain society’s unrealistic ideals of “health.” In this episode, our guest Shana Spence and I break down these big systemic problems, shed light on them, and talk about how you can overcome them.


Our guest, Shana, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist based in Brooklyn, New York. She currently works in public health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, doing community nutrition lessons, and also owns her own company, The Nutrition Tea ®. She describes herself as an "all foods fit" dietitian and creates a platform for open discussion on nutrition and wellness topics that are inclusive, non-diet, and weight-neutral, all with an intersectionality of social justice.


In this episode, we chat about: 

  • The important factors of health that are overlooked 
  • Why ‘healthcare is political, health is not’ 
  • Healthism and how it might be impacting you
  • How diet culture contributes to social justice issues like elitism, discrimination, and more
  • Stigma, xenophobia, and racism surrounding cultural foods
  • Processed foods and why they aren’t the ‘big bad thing’ you may think they are
  • What you as an individual can do to work through all these systemic diet culture issues


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