Dan Harris
Ten Percent Happier
How to Stop Obsessing Over Your Body and Eat Sanely in a Toxic Culture | Virginia Sole-Smith
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How to Stop Obsessing Over Your Body and Eat Sanely in a Toxic Culture | Virginia Sole-Smith

Plus, provocative and practical ideas about actually enjoying exercise, the real relationship between weight and health, the problem with weight loss, the morality of food, feeding your kids, and who "the real bad guy" is.

Virginia Sole-Smith is the bestselling author of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture and The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. She also writes the Burnt Toast newsletter, hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast, and frequently contributes to The New York Times and other publications.

In this episode we talk about:

  • The actual connections between health and body size

  • The severe limitations of many of the most popular approaches to weight loss

  • Nuanced strategies for disentangling from diet culture

  • How to exercise without a hidden agenda of trying to wrench your body into a specific shape

  • The idea that food doesn’t have a moral value

  • The relationship between men, exercise, food, and diet culture

  • How our kids are getting caught up in diet culture, and what parents can do about it

  • What Virginia's smartest critic would say about her contentions

  • Her take on Ozempic

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Dan Harris
Ten Percent Happier
Dan Harris is a fidgety, skeptical journalist who had a panic attack on live national television, which led him to try something he otherwise never would have considered: meditation. He went on to write the bestselling book 10% Happier. On this show, Dan talks with eminent meditation teachers, top scientists, and even the odd celebrity.