4 of the Best Podcasts for Healthcare Professionals in the Eating Disorder Space

Listening to podcasts about eating disorders, disordered eating, and general nutrition can be a great way for healthcare professionals to better understand their patients. Most people receiving an education to work in any type of health care field don’t receive much education about nutrition, and they learn even less about eating disorders. Despite being so common, eating disorders continue to be misunderstood. When healthcare providers don’t understand eating disorders, patients who are struggling may go undiagnosed. Even fantastic healthcare workers can do unintentional harm to patients when they don’t have enough knowledge about disordered eating. Keep reading to see our choice for 4 of the best podcasts for healthcare professionals in the eating disorder space.

Here, I am going to recommend several podcasts that discuss eating disorders, disordered eating, and diet culture. There is an abundance of free and accessible knowledge available to anyone about these topics created by experts who are dedicated to educating us. The podcasts I am including in this blog are resources that I believe would be beneficial for anyone working in healthcare to listen to, but I encourage you to explore all the other great podcasts out there to learn more. 

1. Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Virginia Sole-Smith is a writer who has focused a lot of her work on diet culture and fat acceptance. Here are some of her podcast episodes that I recommend starting with.

• • Healthcare is Ground Zero for Fatphobia 
  • It’s Time to Talk About School Lunch (Again)

2. Maintenance Phase

Created by author Aubrey Gordon, and journalist Michael Hobbes. This podcast aims to debunk health fads, and misinformation. Here are some of the episodes I recommend listening to. 

• • Ozempic
  • The Body Mass Index 

3. Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison. 

In this podcast, Christy Harrison explores a wide variety of topics, but here are some episodes that I want to highlight. 

• • Diet Culture in Black Communities and in the Church with Joy Cox
  • Challenging the Hype About Gut Health and Ultra-Processed Foods with Laura Thomas 

4. Find Your Food Voice 

This is a podcast created by dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon and explores topics related to disordered eating, diet culture, PCOS, and more. Here are some episodes you might be interested in starting with. 

• • My top ways to lower insulin and blood sugar with intuitive eating and without diets
  • Do you need to be weighed at the doctor? Setting weight and food boundaries navigating healthcare

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This list includes episodes covering a wide variety of topics, but there are so many great episodes out there from these podcasters and more. These podcasts would be a great resource for any healthcare professional looking to expand their knowledge in order to provide the best care for their patients, and they can be enjoyed by anyone else who is curious too. 

Thanks for reading our resource on 4 of the best podcasts for healthcare professional in the eating disorder space. We’d love to connect with you to see how we can work together and improve patient outcomes.  

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