Food Psych #305: Processed Foods, the Food Environment, and Their Effects on Intuitive Eating

Christy answers an audience question about processed foods, unpacking flawed research and common assumptions about how the food environment interacts with our ability to trust our cravings and internal cues.

Resources Mentioned

• Subscribe to the weekly newsletter, Food Psych Weekly 

• Submit your questions for a chance to have them answered in the weekly newsletter

• My online course, Intuitive Eating Fundamentals

• My first book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

• My upcoming book, The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

• The Making Peace with Food Card Deck

• Subscribe to the podcast here

• Review of the scientific research on how restrained eating affects food consumption (Content Warning: weight-stigmatizing language)

• Randomized controlled trial of chocolate deprivation

• Brian Wansink’s resignation from Cornell

• My definition of diet culture

• 2017 study, “Food Insecurity and Eating Disorder Pathology”

• 2019 replication of that study