Fixing Your Relationship With Food: Why Diet Culture Isn’t the Answer with Dr Joshua Wolrich - Chew On This with Dr Anna Colton | Lyssna här

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr Joshua Wolrich, a NHS doctor, nutrition counsellor and author of Food Isn’t Medicine. We talk about why food has become such a fraught subject, including the rise of shame and “shoulds”, weight stigma in everyday life and in healthcare, and the way diet culture can start far earlier than we imagine. Joshua shares his own journey from dieting and public “accountability” online to a weight neutral, evidence led approach. We explore why dieting is not risk free, why intuitive eating is so often misunderstood, and how fear rather than science drives so much of what we’re told about sugar, health and body size.

If you have ever felt tension around food, whether that is eating in secret, feeling judged in a doctor’s room, worrying you are “doing it wrong”, or panicking about what you might pass on to your children, this conversation is for you. Joshua’s closing thought is beautifully simple: do one thing that brings more joy to eating, what you love, how you love to eat, and who you love to eat with, because a peaceful relationship with food is not a luxury, it is part of living.

00:36 Debunking Food Myths

01:44 Early Childhood and Food Relationships

03:11 Impact of Food Scarcity on Health

06:07 Navigating Diet Culture and Parenting

11:24 Personal Journey into Nutrition and Medicine

13:49 The Role of Social Media in Dieting

15:11 Challenging Diet Culture and Embracing Intuitive Eating

20:34 Reflecting on Problematic Dieting

21:08 Accidental Social Media U-Turn

21:30 Exploring Intuitive Eating

22:40 Transition to Nutritional Science

25:00 Challenging Dieting Risks