EP 107 - How Social Media Impacts Our Body Image w/ Dr Amy Slater of the Centre for Appearance Research
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This week on the pod Laura’s chatting to Dr Amy Slater, body image researcher at University of West England.
In this episode they discuss:
✨ Thin ideal internalisation + its physical and psychological consequences
✨ How social media holds certain body types up as the ideal + can leave us feeling dissatisfied
✨ The fact that labelling images as digitally altered is not actually helpful in reducing comparison + dissatisfaction and can actually backfire
✨ How advertising in traditional media + social media can impact body image
✨ That even positive feedback about appearance impacts negatively on our body image
✨ What social comparison is + how this has changed with social media
✨ The consequences of viewing fitspiration + self-objectification on Instagram
✨ How we can curate a social media feed that's supportive of positive body image
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | She's got the expert guests to help you feel your best. |
| 0:06.0 | Shats down what diet shed. |
| 0:08.0 | You shouldn't bother wet. |
| 0:10.0 | Get all the real talk from the plant-based talk. |
| 0:14.0 | Feeling good's in the frame. |
| 0:16.0 | Now on Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:18.0 | No, don't salt my game. Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt my game. No, don't salt my game. |
| 0:22.5 | Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm Laura Thomas. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm a registered nutritionist specializing in intuitive eating health at every size and non-diet nutrition. |
| 0:31.8 | We are here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body positivity, and some other |
| 0:38.9 | stuff just thrown in for shits. So this is the season finale for season four of Don't Salt |
| 0:46.6 | My Game. So this will be the last episode for a while before we take a season break. And then we'll |
| 0:53.4 | be back in a few months with season five. |
| 0:57.0 | So if you remember, we started off this season by talking to people about the relationship |
| 1:02.0 | with food and their body before finally busting out of diet culture. |
| 1:06.9 | We spoke to people like Klemie Telford and Sophie Hagan. |
| 1:10.6 | And then we looked at Intuitive Itting in different contexts, |
| 1:13.8 | like in pregnancy or with diabetes. We looked at Real versus Fake Intuitiveiting and loads, |
| 1:20.0 | loads, loads, loads, more stuff. So if you haven't listened to those episodes, then make |
| 1:24.4 | sure you go back and check out all of this season and I guess |
| 1:28.9 | while you're at it the 100 plus other episodes that we have in the archives. So today we are talking |
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