One Small Bite

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Announcement : rebranding private practice to Orozco Nutrition – new website in early-mid August 2021. Podcast remains One Small Bite. In this episode, Ashley Roehrig and David Orozco discuss how a weight-centric healthcare system creates an unhelpful and stressful nervous system response. Doctors have good intentions, but looking at the full picture reveals shocking out...

Hola amigos! Welcome back! Today we celebrate THE 100TH EPISODE by sharing David's personal story and reveal two important changes in his private practice.  Are you sick of uncompassionate care? Tune in to hear how this dietitian rejected diet culture and helps people feel less overwhelmed. Nosotros estamos en esto juntos! The 100th Episode: How I chopped my diet mentality  Topics we cover in...

Welcome back to the One Small Bite Podcast! This is it! Part 3 of the series and this time David is excited to welcome special guest Latinx expert and therapist Melissa Carmona.  In this 3 Part Series we discuss the weight-centered biases in our healthcare system specifically within the Latinx community. Intuitive Eating and HAES informed therapist Melissa Carmon will pick up and further elaborate...

Hola amigos! Welcome back to the One Small Bite Podcast, where David brings an anti-diet approach to help you and Latinx folk make peace with your body and food. OK, you gotta listen in to this episode because this time David is bringing you a 3 Part Series with two amazing and brilliant guests registered dietitian nutritionist Carolina Guízar and therapist Melissa Carmona. In these three episodes...

Hola amigos! Welcome back to another fantastic episode of the One Small Bite Podcast. We are so excited to bring you yet another thought inspiring conversation about body image, food, eating, substance abuse, disordered eating, and life changing journeys. In this episode David talks to Body Confidence Coach and Self-Talk Trainer Anne Poirier. Listen in as we discuss the various challenges people f...

Welcome back mis amigos! I’m excited for today’s episode because I have the honor to talk to Whitney Trotter, registered dietitian nutritionist, and nurse, about how black women and BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) are missed diagnosed for disordered eating and eating disorders, and how diet culture exasperates racism, sizeism, capitalism, and further marginalizes people of color as...

In this episode we’ll talk about changing the world through storytelling. Today, I bring acclaimed author, professor, and storyteller, Kimberley Dark, to the show. She will be telling us about enthusiastically accepting discomfort, dealing with ‘others bias’ in healthcare, and breaking the social hierarchy. [08:55] Why are stories so helpful in breaking the scaffoldings of social hierarchy [15:20]...

In this episode we’ll talk about energy deficiencies. Today, I bring Owner of EnlightenU Nutrition Consulting, LLC , Val Schonberg, to the show. She will be telling us about Female and Male Athlete Triad, REDS, and busting some of the myths about calories. You’ll also get to hear about how influential diet culture has been in nurturing a fear of weight gain, how eating disorders manifest, and how...

In this episode we’ll talk about our practice and approach, and we’ll address some of the diseases, illnesses, and conditions that we see in our clients. I bring registered dietitian, and our podcast content creator, Raegan Perkins, to the show. This is going to be an introductory episode to how intuitive eating can benefit people with a chronic illness- which will be followed up by more in-depth...

This episode is all about Creating a pause between the signals our body sends us and our evaluation of those signals in a cultural context (quoted from reembody website). The quote is the best way to sum up this conversation with guests Kevin Moore and Beck Beverage, founders of the reembody method and the breathing room app. Although, this quote may leave you with some questions like, what do you...

David is back with another great episode and this time he's talking with his special guest registered dietitian nutritionist (and just the awesomest weight-inclusive LatinX nutritionist out there) Dalina Soto MA, RD, LDN. Dalina is a Spanish speaking registered dietitian and works as one of the few Spanish speaking registered dietitian nutritionists in the Philadelphia area and virtually acro...

In Episode 89, David shares insight into a Healthline article about very low carbohydrate diets (VLCD). Per usual in the Friday Food Cast, you hear what one of our interns, Victoria Pamee, has found when doing a deep dive into the articles referenced research. The article is "How to Lose Weight FAST with Science". It provides several different suggestions, primarily reducing refined carb...

On this Solo Episode, David explains some of the holes in weight loss research, shines a light on why the research doesn't support weight loss as a cure for everything, and discusses the difference between weight centric and weight inclusive. He asks "If you are supposed to lose weight to live longer and stay healthy why isn't it working?".  In the beginning of this podcast Dav...

During David's conversation with Donna Shields, Dietitian and co-founder of the Holistic Cannabis Academy , they cover everything you need to know about (you guested it) cannabis!  Donna tells us her journey as a dietitian, once working for the US Army and culinary institute , as well as how her breast cancer diagnosis opened her eyes to the world of cannabis and the lack of cannabis educatio...

David interviews Abbey Griffith, the owner of Clarity Fitness a body positive fitness center in Decatur, Georgia. During this episode David and Abbey talk about what body positivity means, how Clarity Fitness came to be, and they have an open and honest conversation about their personal struggles with weight centric thinking. In this episode it is important to listen to the end (hint, hint). As Ab...

In episode 85m David interviews guest Aaron Flores, a Body Trust® Certified dietitian based in California, about how body trust can help you break free from diet culture. During their conversation, David and Aaron cover so many topics from the similarities in their journeys, to the lack of diversity in the non-diet approach; and much, much more. Aaron shares with us a little about what it was like...

This Friday Food Cast is a special episode where David reflects on a year of living through the COVID-19  pandemic. He talks about the experiences two of his siblings had while fighting off COVID, the impacts it has had on his business, and what we can continue to do keep ourselves and others safe.   It's been just over a year since COVID shut down normal business as we knew it in 2019. David...

This week David interviews Kent Thomas, a social worker that focuses on body liberation coaching in Tacoma, WA. In this podcast David and Kent discuss difficult questions and thought provoking ideas around food, eating disorders, and body liberation. David asks Kent what body liberation is; They discuss queerness and Christianity, body shaming in the gay community, toxic masculinity, control, heal...

This episode is another great interview with Patrick Bryant, licensed clinical social worker  and a continued guest on the One Small Bite podcast. Patrick and David discuss the question; Is dieting causing more trauma? This question stems from David's work with his clients, specifically one client whose father called her fat in her preteen years and how a statement from so long ago impacted h...

On this Friday Food Cast we continue to inspect the referenced research from a different weight loss article, with a weight inclusive lens. Episode 81 dives into one of the referenced research papers from an article about different intermitted fasting techniques and weight loss. The article and research was reviewed by an intern at TD Wellness, Ivy Tran.  On the surface the research paper appears...

Episode 80 brings you chef Chris Spear, owner of Perfect Little Bites and fonder of Chefs Without Restaurants. David interviews Chris about his experiences, what got him into cooking, how he started his own personal chef business where he cooks for groups as small as two, and more.  Did you know what for one meal it can take a personal chef four days to do all the prep work!? Crazy how much time a...

In this episode, David interviews Laura Lagano – author, writer, dietitian, and cannabis educator. Laura and David talk in depth about cannabis and the endocannabinoid system(don’t worry, this system is explained in the interview). They also discuss the difference between THC and cannabis and the effects cannabis has on our body relating to medication and foods. Laura also shares with us the impor...

On this episode of OSB David interviews Alissa Rumsey, author, dietitian, and intuitive eating counselor, about her new book Unapologetic Eating and more. Alissa shares how her relationship with food has transformed over the year and all things related to her new books. Her and David have a great conversation about Alissa’s four key elements to unapologetic eating.  In the interview, Alissa speaks...

This week David talks with Desmond Spann, a poet, creator, emcee, and educator based in the Portland area, about his Friday Reflections podcast and more. Desmond talks about his journey and the importance of words and writing as a means for expressing and experiencing emotions. One thing Desmond shares with us that really sticks out in this interview, is his view that you can train your emotions,...