We can’t ignore the genetic reality of disease.

Yes, there are things you can do to support your health - but it sure isn’t dieting.

It’s the fourth episode of Beyond Weight - a NEW series that asks the question “how can we manage health concerns without focusing on weight loss, food restriction, and body shame?” and today, Jill is speaking with Glenys Oyston - a dietician from Los Angeles who helps people recover from eating and body images issues created by toxic diet culture through the Health at Every Size® and non-diet eating approaches. Glenys works with metabolic conditions like Type II diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol - and today we are going to chat about a new model for managing these illnesses.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Health at Every Size has HEALTH as it’s first word! We can work toward health in any body.
  
• Why there’s not enough long-term evidence to support drastic restriction for metabolic concerns…and why it might cause more harm
  
• The problem with looking at short-term results in studies
  
• Weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) as a major cause of inflammation in the body
  
• Being a health practitioner that asks about health markers BESIDES food and weight (like sleep apnea!)
  
• Why structure in eating can be very helpful with metabolic conditions
  
• Circling back to Gentle Nutrition when the time is right
  
• Pulling the best from conventional diets - like the DASH diet - without falling into restriction and misery
  
• The safety of dieting - and how to feel safe without restricting
  
• Healthism - the beginning of illness blame and shame
  
• Taking the shame out of needing medications
  
• What weight loss focused studies aren’t looking at
  
• How addressing these issues is might be less horrible when you aren’t restricting
  

Links:

To sign up for information about the launch of Self-Care for Diabetes:

https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/haescarefordiabetes/

Glenys' website:

https://daretonotdiet.com/