Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo about body size, relationship to food, and growing up food insecure

A great discussion with writer and activist Ijeoma Oluo among other things:

• Ijeoma’s relationship with food growing up, including her experience with food insecurity

• The issues with food access for low-income people

• Food hoarding as a response to deprivation

• The impact of sexual assault on our eating behaviors

• The invisibility of fat bodies and the privileges of thin bodies

• The myth that weight loss is the cure to all ills

• Size discrimination

• Systemic injustice

• The impact of weight loss surgery on a person’s self-image

• The impossibility of the beauty ideal

• Body image in relation to the scale

• Body acceptance as a continuous process

• Appreciating our body for its part in achieving our life accomplishments

• Honoring our true selves

• Finding an individualized, *truly* holistic approach to health

• Body positivity vs. body neutrality

• A child’s experience with their body pre-diet culture

• Fatphobia in the medical community and in schools

• How to shield kids from the diet mentality

• The BMI obsession and the “childhood obesity” bogeyman

• Thinking critically about messages we receive from authority figures

• The need for doctors to be trained in Health at Every Size

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