Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

 In todays episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I chat with Dr Jessica Knurick, a fellow registered dietitian who specializes in pregnancy nutrition with a PhD in physical activity, nutrition and wellness. We will be discussing how diet culture and wellness culture loves to pray on pregnant people. We will chat about the actual impact of mom’s diet during pregnancy on baby’s health and developme...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I will be chatting with immunologist and microbiologist, Dr. Andrea Love of immunologic.org, a science and health education organization committed to debunking health wellness misinformation. Andrea will be going deep into the science on the safety of vaccines, fluoride, endocrine disruptors in tap water, food dyes, pasteurized vs milk, GMOs, glyph...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we will be chatting with Dr. Supatra Tovar, a registered dietitian, a clinical psychologist, and the author of the new book, Deprogram Diet Culture: Rethink your Relationship with Food, Heal your Mind and Live a Diet-free Life. We discuss why people tend to binge after dieting, and all of the compensatory mechanisms that prevent weight loss and enc...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we will be discussing the real risk of so called “toxins” in our beauty products as we have been told by the Clean Beauty industry. Our guest today is PhD cosmetic chemist, Dr Michelle Wong aka @Labmuffinbeautyscience. Michelle will be discussing the real of “toxins” getting into our body through our skin. Sh will also discuss actual risks and bene...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I’m going to be unpacking all things metabolism. I will be explaining in detail that metabolism is a lot more than just how many calories you burn to maintain your body weight, and exactly how much your metabolism slows down with aging and weight loss. I then will be going into detail on various metabolism boosting “hacks” and exactly how many extr...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I will be chatting with clinical psychologist, Dr. Jonathan Stea, author of the book “Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry”. We will be discussing the damage of mental health medication stigma (aka “pill shaming”) including my own experience being pill shamed online. We will chat about the risks of rejecting psychi...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I will be chatting with food blogger, cookbook author and nutritionist Sarah Britton about her experiences with raw veganism becoming a dangerous eating disorder and how she untangled her diet from her core identity. Sarah talks about the exclusivity of certain extreme diets like raw veganism and how it serves to perpetuate the internalization of o...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we will be chatting with Registered dietitian and PhD Dr. Eric Williamson. Eric is a fellow registered dietitian specializing in fitness, performance and longevity, with a PhD that focused on the intersection of exercise nutrition and metabolic health. He’s also the director of nutrition at Canyon Ranch wellness resorts and has been a key scientifi...

It’s officially diet culture season, and if you’ve been trying to make peace with food and your body while still making peace with food, this episode is for you. Instead of constantly thinking about what we need to permanently cut out of our diet (which lets be real, never lasts), we need to move from scarcity mentality to a place of abundance and nourishment where we’re focusing on what we can ad...

Happy new year, friends! In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I will be talking to Lauren Hope Krass. Lauren is a comedian, a contributor to Betches media, and the co-host of the Good Bodies podcast - formerly called Diet Starts Tomorrow. She’s also a body positivity advocate and a fat activist and I’m so excited to have her on our show! Today we will be unpacking common misunderstand...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I will be talking to Dr Emily Contois,  an Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa specializing in how identities are formed at the vital intersection of food, the body, and ideas about health. She is the author of “Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture” and co-editor of “Food Instagram: Identity, I...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we get to sit down with ex-NXIVM cult member, Sarah Edmondson. Sarah is the star of the hit HBO series, The Vow, the author of Scarred, and the co-host of the podcast, A Little Bit Culty. In this episode, she details the extreme low calorie diets and exercise regimens that members of Keith Raniere’s NXIVM cult were instructed to follow. We discuss...

In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, and today we’re talking with anti diet dietitian and fellow podcaster and author, Christy Harrison about wellness culture grifters. We’re going to be talking a lot about how wellness culture is co-opting intuitive eating, along with the rise in different dubious diagnoses and spurious cures including leaky gut, chronic candida and adrenal fatigue....

In todays episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, and I will be doing a solo episode looking at a lot of the myths and misconceptions on sugar. Is it really the toxin that people believe it to be? Should we be avoiding it like the plague and eating carnivore or super low cal? I will also leave you with some tips on how to prevent the risks of sugar consumption. I’ll be covering the following claims...

In todays episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I share my eating disorder (orthorexia) origin story, and I speak with my own sister (and clinical psychologist), Dr. Skye Fitzpatrick about how mental illnesses like eating disorders affect and are affected by family members and those in your immediate circle. Skye and I talk about how my eating disorder affected her as a young teen, and how famili...

On today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, I am chatting with content creator Emily Durham, also known online as Emily the Recruiter, about diet culture in the workplace. We will be discussing the intersection of sexism, hustle culture and diet culture, fatphobic hiring practices, problematic workplace “wellness culture”, and how women engage disordered eating under the guise of productivit...

On today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we will be chatting with TikTok nutrition myth buster, Dr Idz. He will be helping us debunk some of the biggest nutrition scandals online including claims that seed oils are inflammatory, that all blood sugar and insulin spikes are dangerous, and that glyphosate in your conventional food is toxic. In our takeaway section, we will leave you with som...

On today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we dive into body positivity with lifestyle content creator Sierra Schultzzie. Sierra opens up about body kindness and confidence as a mom of young children, her journey with PCOS, diet, and food, and how she shares creativity and self-love through her content. I will also be sharing actionable tips on how to show your body kindness, even when you’...

Welcome to the debut episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp! In this episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with Kris Collins, also known as Kall Me Kris on social media. We dive deep into her personal food and body journey, discussing her history with diet culture, her history with anorexia and bulimia, and her unique experience trying to recover from her eating disorder as a massive content crea...

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Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to my new podcast, Bite Back with Abbey Sharp. Join me every Tuesday for expert interviews, engaging conversations, and science-backed information to help you leave diet culture behind for good. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •✨ Reach Your Weight & Health Goals — Without Dieting! Pre-order The Hunger Cru...