361: Stop Calling "Bad" Food. How Diet Culture Taught Us to Fear What We Eat

If you've ever felt guilty after eating something "unhealthy" — or quietly proud of yourself for resisting a "bad" food — this episode is for you. We've all absorbed the idea that food falls neatly into two buckets: good or bad, clean or dirty, healthy or unhealthy. And for decades, the diet industry has been more than happy to hand us the rulebook. But here's what nobody's telling you: that rulebook was never written for your body. It wasn't written for your hormones, your history, your life at 40-something. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we're breaking down where the good/bad food binary actually comes from, how food tracking apps and social media influencers are making it worse, and why marketing labels like "low fat," "zero calorie," and "diet" aren't the health signals we've been trained to think they are. We're also talking about how one single ingredient can get an entire food canceled — and why that kind of thinking is fear dressed up as information. This episode is for the woman who has followed every rule and still feels confused. Let's start unraveling this together.