Episode 29: How Can We Bring All Voices to the Table?
About the Podcast
We eat in patterned ways that reflect our social, emotional, and economic status. Registered Dietitian Leslie Bonci shares what it’s like to eat healthy on a limited budget, ways to expand access to good food, and ideas for cultivating a diverse team to solve inequalities in our communities.
About Leslie Bonci
Leslie J. Bonci , MPH,RD,CSSD, LDN, is the owner of Active Eating Advice, a nutrition consulting company and is the co-founder of Performance365, a sports nutrition consulting company. Her company, Performance 365, will provide sports nutrition services for the XFL, the new football league starting in 2020. She is the sports dietitian for the 2020 Super Bowl Champions Kansas City Chiefs.
She is the author of Sport Nutrition for Coaches and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Guide to Better Digestion and co-author of Run Your Butt Off, Walk Your Butt Off, The Active Calorie Diet and Bike Your Butt Off. She has authored chapters for sports medicine and sports nutrition manuals. Leslie is also a blogger for US News and World Report Eat + Run; has a monthly television segment on KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh Today Live show; and is a regular guest on local and national radio programs.
Leslie is passionate about having people eat within their salary cap. Most of her audiences and clients are not paid like professional athletes, but they need to eat well to play well and stay well. Her goal is to find a way to create an #enabledtable that allows everyone to eat within their means.
Discussion Takeaways
- Support your supporting structure. Drink your milk.
- Change the food dialogue to remove the food guilt.
- Eating is complex and feelings. We don’t want to make people feel bad about food.
- Encourage dialogue from all sides.
- Meet people where they are, so everyone has a seat at the table.
- If you want to resonate with relevance, think about the messaging you use with your patients.
#1 tip to improve access to healthy food
Meet people where they are, so everyone has a seat at the table.
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