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Have you heard about the social determinants of health before? Addressing the impact of systemic problems on health is becoming more common - and for good reason! Though individual behaviors matter to your health, they are not the be-all-end-all solution that diet culture says they are. In this episode, we interview public health expert and Registered Dietitian Deanna Belleny Lewis MPH, RDN to discuss:

• What are the social determinants of health? Why does knowing about social determinants matter?
• How can people who live with low access to health care, groceries, and safe spaces to move work on their health?
• What can people with privilege be doing to dismantle the structures that reinforce social determinants others can’t change?

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Episode Resources:

• Follow our guest Deanna at @deanna.rdn or @diversifydietetics
• Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
• Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
• Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
• The resource Deanna mentions are White Supremacy Culture and The Social Determinants of Health
• Donate to Diversify Dietetics at https://www.diversifydietetics.org/

This episode was sponsored by Your Latina Nutritionist with Dalina Soto

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