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About The Book
Reject diet culture, achieve a healthy relationship with food, and nourish your body and soul with this book from registered dietitian, nutritionist, and creator behind the Instagram @TheNutritionTea, Shana Spence.
In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that is engrained in countless aspects of our society, and that keeps us from living healthily and joyfully. It’s a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And it’s a belief that pervades our society.
Spence’s arguments will open your eyes to the insidiousness of this mindset, which coopts the way that we speak, we eat, we move, and live our lives. Through a takedown of diet culture in all its forms, Spence explains why diets don’t work, and provides you with the courage and the knowledge needed to prioritize nourishing the body and soul.
To get there, Spence walks you through healing your relationship with food. Touching on concepts like intuitive eating and health at any size, Live Nourished provides you with a roadmap towards eating, moving, and living in a way that works for you.
Spence’s thesis is simple: If we can learn to separate ourselves and our worth from diet culture, we can learn how to eat when we’re hungry, meet our body’s unique needs, and discover which foods give us pleasure—all while nourishing our bodies and souls in the process.
In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that is engrained in countless aspects of our society, and that keeps us from living healthily and joyfully. It’s a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And it’s a belief that pervades our society.
Spence’s arguments will open your eyes to the insidiousness of this mindset, which coopts the way that we speak, we eat, we move, and live our lives. Through a takedown of diet culture in all its forms, Spence explains why diets don’t work, and provides you with the courage and the knowledge needed to prioritize nourishing the body and soul.
To get there, Spence walks you through healing your relationship with food. Touching on concepts like intuitive eating and health at any size, Live Nourished provides you with a roadmap towards eating, moving, and living in a way that works for you.
Spence’s thesis is simple: If we can learn to separate ourselves and our worth from diet culture, we can learn how to eat when we’re hungry, meet our body’s unique needs, and discover which foods give us pleasure—all while nourishing our bodies and souls in the process.
About The Author
Photograph by Shana Spence
Shana Minei Spence is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who calls herself an “all foods fit” dietitian. Spence is the creator of the hugely popular Instagram account @TheNutritionTea, as in giving the tea on nutrition. She works in public health with a focus on community health and runs a private practice where she has helped hundreds of clients stop harmful dieting habits for improved health and happiness. She has appeared on Good Morning America online, has given talks for Peloton and the national Eating Recovery Center, and been featured on NPR and in Self, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Outside, Shape, and other outlets. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Product Details
- Publisher: S&S/Simon Element (August 13, 2024)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781668014981
Raves and Reviews
"Shana has been one of my absolute favorite voices in the anti-diet space for years now! I couldn't be more thrilled that her book is finally here. I know this book will be a saving grace for so many people struggling to find peace in their relationship with food." - Victoria Garrick Browne @VictoriaBrowne
"Reading Shana's book was such a joy, the way she articulates these big issues in easily digestible words is a gift to us all. She has done a magnificent job in walking us through why diets suck, but in a way that makes you go 'aha! this makes total sense.' You're absolutely going to love this book, because health is so nuanced and having a healthy relationship with food is more than just eating the cookie." -Dalina DeSoto, Founder & Bilingual Dietitian, Nutritiously Yours & Your Latina Nutritionist
“In Live Nourished, Spence peels back the layers to examine the intersection between systemic racism, classism and the pursuit of wellness. Readers are encouraged to think about where they fit into dominant structures and identify how they can modify learned hierarchical thinking around food. This book will challenge all of our preconceived notions about health, wellness and the 24 hours that we live each day." –Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN registered dietitian nutritionist and author of Eating Our Roots
"Shana's book, Live Nourished, is an invaluable resource for understanding the pitfalls of diet culture and learning how to establish a truly healthy relationship with food." —Sohee Carpente, MS, CSCS, *D, founder and head coach of SoheeFit
"The white-dominated wellness industry is well overdue for this conversation! Shana Spence's book demystifies the convoluted, contradictory, and elitist nature of the industrial wellness complex. Exploring the intersection of wellness, racism, diet culture, and healthism, this book is a no-nonsense approach to help you actually reclaim a joyful relationship with food, movement, and your body. Lived Nourished is refreshing, approachable, and accessible, and quite frankly, a book that all of us need to read." —Chrissy King, bestselling author of The Body Liberation Project
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