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Food Psych is a podcast exploring the intersection of food and psychology. Each episode, nutritionist/journalist Christy Harrison talks with guests—chefs, comedians, writers, actors, psychologists, nutritionists, entrepreneurs, and other interesting people—about their relationships to food, weird eating habits, and fond food memories. She also examines the ...

Food Psych is a podcast exploring the intersection of food and psychology. Each episode, nutritionist/journalist Christy Harrison talks with guests—chefs, comedians, writers, actors, psychologists, nutritionists, entrepreneurs, and other interesting people—about their relationships to food, weird eating habits, and fond food memories. She also examines the latest science about how food choices affect the brain and vice versa, offering some nutrition tips along the way.

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    #33: Stop Counting

    Comedian Chrissie Mayr discusses family food habits, why she hated ...

    Comedian Chrissie Mayr discusses family food habits, why she hated her body and dieted constantly in college, and how she finally stopped obsessing about food and her weight.

    Oct 7, 2014 Read more
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    #32: Healthy Beginnings

    Season 2 premiere! Food Psych is back, but this season ...

    Season 2 premiere! Food Psych is back, but this season we're taking a more leisurely approach, posting new episodes roughly once a month. This episode we talk with journalist Jane Lerner about how she developed an impressively healthy...

    Sep 2, 2014 Read more
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    #31: Life of Pie

    Season finale! Actor and vocal coach Casey Erin Clark discusses ...

    Season finale! Actor and vocal coach Casey Erin Clark discusses church potlucks, her love of pie, how she maintained a healthy body image after a college theater director told her to lose weight, the connections...

    May 20, 2014 Read more
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    #30: Culinary Comedy

    Comedian and chef Greg Brown shares a ton of fun ...

    Comedian and chef Greg Brown shares a ton of fun food-psych stories, including how he got a group of female professional cyclists to stop their disordered eating habits, why he doesn't want to be thought of as a balanced eater,...

    May 13, 2014 Read more
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    #29: Sizing Up

    Actor Lulu Fogarty discusses the food and body image issues ...

    Actor Lulu Fogarty discusses the food and body image issues she encountered while working in Taipei, her first and only gig as a plus-size model, how she stayed sane about eating during times of weight gain and loss, and more. Trigger...

    May 6, 2014 Read more
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    #28: Seen and Heard

    Photographer and radio host Michael Harlan Turkell discusses his past ...

    Photographer and radio host Michael Harlan Turkell discusses his past as a picky kid, his experience working in kitchens, how OCD shows up in his relationship to food, and lots more.

    Apr 29, 2014 Read more
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    #27: Hunger, Health, Heartache

    In this episode, comedic actor Michelle Francesca Thomas discusses how ...

    In this episode, comedic actor Michelle Francesca Thomas discusses how her grandparents' health-consciousness (and grandmother's disordered eating) influenced her relationship to food; her experience of food insecurity and the unexpected...

    Apr 22, 2014 Read more
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    #26: Seders and Stroganoff

    We're back! In honor of Passover, we talk with food/nutrition ...

    We're back! In honor of Passover, we talk with food/nutrition editor Adina Steiman about her family's Seder traditions, the parallels between nutrition and religion, how boxed Stroganoff launched her culinary career, and lots more.

    Apr 15, 2014 Read more
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    #25.5: Culinary Class BONUS

    We're about to go on a two-week break, but before ...

    We're about to go on a two-week break, but before we do, check out this bonus episode with more from historian Jude Webre on food, class, and Southern cuisine! Plus, a listener shares her recent history of disordered eating, and Christy drops...

    Mar 25, 2014 Read more
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    #25: Culinary Class

    This week we talk food and class (the socioeconomic kind) ...

    This week we talk food and class (the socioeconomic kind) with Yahoo Food features editor Alex Van Buren and Columbia University History PhD candidate Jude Webre. Jude discusses his culinary upbringing in a poor Cajun...

    Mar 18, 2014 Read more
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