Press / Media

Media Contact

Juliana Horbachevsky, Little, Brown & Company, Juliana.Horbachevsky@hbgusa.com

Selected Media Appearances

• The Globe and Mail: ‘What I eat in a day’ videos and the new diet culture

• Lifehacker: Ten Podcasts That Dismantle Diet Culture

• SELF: 11 Wellness Books That Helped Us Live Better in 2023

• Philadelphia Inquirer: A wellness coach claims she can fix people’s vision. An anti-misinformation TikToker isn’t having it.

• The Guardian: ‘Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches actually work?

• TODAY: I’m a dietitian. Don’t believe these 5 myths about nutrition rooted in ‘wellness’

• CBS Mornings: Christy Harrison discusses the harm of wellness culture

• The New York Times: How to Spot a Wellness Scam

• Next Big Idea Club: Book Bite: The Wellness Trap

• Mashable: The vast morass of DietTok

• The Seattle Times: New book ‘The Wellness Trap’ digs into the dark side of wellness culture

• Burnt Toast: Elimination Diets Are Not A Panacea

• WANTcast: Decoding Disinformation and Rethinking Wellness

• The Cut: ‘Wellness’ Was Never About Our Well-Being

• Pénélope, Radio-Canada: Éviter les pièges de l’industrie du bien-être, avec Christy Harrison (in French / en français)

• Insider: 6 things you should do to decide if a wellness fad is worth it — or if it’s an expensive scam

• Allure: 5 Books Reexamining the Wellness Industry and All Its Toxic Parts

• Publishers Weekly: The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being

• Kirkus Reviews: A sobering, well-informed analysis of widespread deceit

• Glamour UK: How to participate in Dry January without falling prey to diet culture

• Insider: 11 Podcasts That Embrace Body Acceptance

• Newsweek: Kourtney Kardashian French Fry Rule Is Flawed, Anti-Diet Activists Say

• Bon Appétit: Comment on the problems with collagen powder

• Romper: Once And For All: Do Parents Cause Eating Disorders?

• SELF: Wondering How to Start Intuitive Eating? Meditation Could Help You Improve Your Relationship With Food

• Bon Appétit: I Thought Intuitive Eating Was Just Another Diet—Until I Tried It

• BuzzFeed News: Noom Isn’t Reinventing The Diet Wheel

• Eater: How to Avoid the Shameless Creep of Diet Culture’s ‘New Year, New You’ Nonsense

• Wall Street Journal: The Next ‘It’ Diet? Not Trying to Lose Weight

• TODAY: Get inspired with these podcast recommendations for 2022

• Yahoo! What is intuitive eating? Experts explain misconceptions about this 'anti-diet' lifestyle

• Washington Post: Even 1 small change can lead to healthier eating. Here are 6 to consider.

• Fast Company: How $4 billion Noom co-opted the language of eating-disorder recovery to sell weight loss

• Ten Percent Happier: How to Embrace the Anti-Diet | Christy Harrison

• Good Morning America: Diet talk can be overwhelming at Thanksgiving. Here are tips to cope

• Insider: 25 products and services that encourage body acceptance and push back against diet culture

• Reader’s Digest: 35 Best Podcasts You Should Be Listening to in 2021

• Mashable: The 18 best motivational podcasts that could change your life

• The New York Times: Raising Kids to Love Exercise

• Diet Starts Tomorrow: Unpacking the Fear of Weight Gain Ft. Christy Harrison

• Shondaland: Practicing Intuitive Eating

• On S’Appelle et On Déjeune: Une Rencontre Avec Christy Harrison (in French / en français)

• Good Housekeeping: The Unbearable Weight of Diet Culture

• Business Insider: Don't deny yourself a vaccine because of guilt or shame around a high BMI. If you're eligible, go for it.

• Teen Vogue: How Billie Eilish Inspires Me Not to Listen to Diet Culture

• Bookriot: The Most Popular Under-the-Radar Books In U.S. Libraries: July–September 2020

• Well+Good: Food and Fitness Language Gets Extra Triggering Around the Holidays—Here’s How To Cope

• Good Housekeeping: I Tried Intuitive Eating and It Completely Changed the Way I Think About Food

• Teen Vogue: Ask a Fat Girl: Eating Disorders Happen at Any Size

• Netflix (Un)Well: Season 1, Episode 4: Fasting

• The New York Times: Don’t Be Ashamed of Those Extra Pounds

• Well + Good: You’re Not Alone if the Pandemic Has Made Your Relationship With Food Difficult and Confusing

• Bustle: How Social Distancing Triggers Disordered Eating, According To Eating Disorder Experts

• 9Honey TV: Anti-diet dietitian Christy Harrison explains how to stop obsessing about food

• Outside: This Dietitian Wants to Burn Diet Culture to the Ground

• The New York Times: 7 Podcasts for a Healthier Mind and Body

• Comfort Food podcast: How to Stop Obsessing Over What You Eat

• Insider: 'Intuitive eating' is on the rise, and experts say it's because people are fed up with diet culture

• Lifehacker: How to Keep Perspective When Everyone Around You Is Dieting

• The New York Times: Your Baby Doesn’t Need to Go Paleo

• Huffington Post: Intuitive Eating: What It Is, And Why It Could Work For You

• Body Kindness podcast: Episode 138: Why being “ANTI-diet” is “pro” health 

• Love, Food podcast: Episode 190: How Does Food Activism Fit into Food Peace?

• The F*ck It Diet podcast: Christy Harrison & her book Anti-Diet

• RD Real Talk podcast: Episode 127: BTS—Writing the Anti-Diet Book with Christy Harrison MPH RD

• SHAPE: Why Food Labels That Specify How Much Exercise It Takes to Burn Calories Are a Bad Idea

• The Seattle Times: ‘Anti-Diet’ is the ‘diet’ book you need to read headed into 2020

• WUNC 91.5 Radio, Embodied: Deconstructing Diet Culture And The Science Behind It

• Publishers Weekly: ABPA Looks at Nonfiction Trends

• SHAPE: Jillian Michaels' Take On Holiday Weight Gain Leaves Us with Some Questions

• The Washington Post: What is intuitive eating, and how do you do it?

• Cheddar TV: Kurbo, a New Weight Loss App For Children & Teens, Sparks Criticism

• Publishers Weekly: Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

• WIRED: Watching Our Weight Could Be Killing Us

• Buzzfeed: Weight Watchers Is Changing Its Name, But Is It Trying To Have Its Diet Cake And Eat It Too?

• New York Post: Your #mealprep obsession could signal an eating disorder

• The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith

• SELF: 17 Trustworthy Registered Dietitians to Follow for Truly Great Advice

• Health: How to Stop Beating Yourself Up About What You Eat

• The Washington Post: Are we putting too much blame on ‘emotional eating’?

• SELF: Orthorexia: How My 'Clean Eating' Turned Into Anorexia

• The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic

• Epicurious: Do Children Really Need to Stop Drinking Whole Milk After They Turn 2?

• Refinery29: Weight Watchers Led To My Eating Disorder — Here's How

• Refinery29: The Not-So-Secret Truth About Emotional Eating

• Health.com & CNN: Whole-wheat bread and other 'healthy' foods diet experts avoid

• Refinery29 video: We Tried A 5-Day Juice Cleanse — Here's What Happened