The Body Protest

The Cost of Eating Disorders with Professor Bryn Austin

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Hi Body Protesters!     We have another HUGE episode this week – we speak with Professor Bryn Austin, ScD, is an award-winning researcher, teacher, and mentor. Bryn is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. She also is the director of Harvard STRIPED – the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders.    We talk about the cost of eating disorders, the need to change the narrative on eating disorder stereotypes and how just naming the stereotypes serves to perpetuate them. And then on a more positive note, we talk about how to create policy change through that magic combination of story-telling and science.    There’s a bit of background noise – sorry about that!      We hope you enjoyed listening! Please remember to rate, review, share and subscribe!    Honey and Nadia x x x  Chat to us on Instagram:  @honeykinny  @nadia.craddock    Keep up with Bryn and Harvard STRIPED  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/striped/  https://twitter.com/HarvardSTRIPED  https://www.instagram.com/harvardstriped/   Harvard STRIPED Advocacy Playbook: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/striped/welcome-to-the-striped-advocacy-playbook/   Harvard STRIPED x Eating Disorder Coalition Advocacy Day – May 6th 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eating-disorders-coalition-capitol-hill-2021-virtual-advocacy-day-tickets-142246129001     The Books Bryn referenced:  Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath  Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff    Link to our Google Drive for more resources:    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NQEtTVppveEpgVNfFXZx_DTusw8xwjBg?usp=sharing    Episode produced and edited by Daisy Grant Productions  Music by Eve Garland  Cover art by Erin Keen     

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