When diet culture meets running culture with Zoë Rom & Kylee Van Horn

"... the overwhelming majority of people who identify as women, that run, have at one time had an eating disorder or disordered eating, or at minimum low energy availability. So just assume that 60% of images you saw [on social media] were of someone who is actively not well." 

Zoë Rom and Kylee Van Horn RDN join the Lane 9 Podcast with Heather Caplan RDN to talk about why diet culture in running (and in general) sucks, and how athlete identities get wrapped up in performance nutrition, body image, and the next health trend. Rom and Van Horn co-host the podcast, Your Diet Sucks (YDS), to bring history, facts, and nuance to diet and nutrition trends, through their lenses as a journalist and dietitian. 

This conversation includes: 

• Why Van Horn decided to compete as a collegiate athlete
• How Rom got into running as a "late in life" athlete, on the trails
• Writing about food and nutrition while navigating personal eating disorder treatment and recovery, and the responsibility that comes with reporting on both nutrition and health for athletes, and eating disorders in sport
• Where the line is drawn between disordered eating and eating for performance
• Why they started the show, YDS, together
• A topic there were nervous to tackle on YDS
• and a lukewarm take on taking bicarb!

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