Dr Emma Beckett

DIET CULTURE IMPACTS PEOPLE OF ALL SIZES. BUT NOT IN THE SAME WAY DIET CULTURE & FATPHOBIA IMPACT PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN LARGER BODIES. LEARNING THAT YOU AREN’T FAT IS GREAT FOR SOME. BUT LEARNING THAT “BEING FAT” SHOULDN’T BE A THING YOU FEAR & INTEROGATING WHY YOU FEAR IT IS A STEP MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO BE SKIPPING, AND THAT COULD HELP EVERYONE. and me pointing at the text. I'm a chonky lady with pale skin and dark hair.

I've seen a whole lot of content lately about people realising they aren't actually fat, that diet culture has just been lying to them. That's great for you all, but please remember what these declarations say to people who are actually fat.

whahahah whole, sorry. typo!

Medication is medication.
But societal discourse and judgement is a hole other thing.

It's a Kasey Rainbow fabric from Material Difference. I had Lol Mangan make it into a skirt top combo. 😍

Me, pointing at the text, pulling kind of smug mmm hmm face. and the text says "I’M NOT ASKING OR TELLING YOU TO EAT LIKE ME. I’M SHARING INFORMATION YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE (or not) TO EAT LIKE YOU. Honestly, you should be very wary of anyone saying “eat like me” without caveats, particularly if it implies eating like them will lead to you therefore being like them."

The trolls love to say "Don't listen to her about nutrition - you might end up looking like her." But I'm not telling you to eat like me (that would be silly; you're not me & I don't know enough about you)

But as instructional as I get is to say -- be wary of instructional one size fits all advice.

Photos of me eating a bunch of potatoes and the text - We don’t have good science on fad diets. Often there’s no direct evidence to say if a fad diet is specifically good or bad. This doesn’t mean we can’t make recommendations from the body of knowledge. BUT We can’t study everything, for reasons of time, cost & practicality. It’s also unethical to put people on diets that we believe will cause harm"

www.dremmabeckett-foodnutritionscientist.com/blog/c7tt9rf3176cgsda17p6e7sqd3fx7h

Thank you!

Me in a blue skirt and top combo with cheese print, cheese toasty earrings and specs with yellow frames and a cheese toasty being stretched apart behind me.

Someone asked why melted cheese tastes so much better...I love these Qs, it's food science we take for granted!
Melting breaks down fats and proteins to release umami + aroma/flavour compounds. The gooey texture spreads to the tastebuds better + the Maillard reaction creates that toasty flavour.

Using the word fat - thoughts on balancing the needs of multiple communities because people with EDs and people with larger bodies exist and both matter.

www.dremmabeckett-foodnutritionscientist.com/blog/using-t...

www.dremmabeckett-foodnutritionscientist.com/blog/being-a...

I often describe myself as 'fat' or 'chonky' - and people reply with "No you aren't, you're beautiful" or whatever else. I appreciate the attempted kindness, but it's not the compliment people think it is, it's actually an unkindness.
www.dremmabeckett-foodnutritionscientist.com/blog/think-t...

Thank you for making this ALSO rather than BUT. 😍

Me in my bread dress blowing kissy face with the text "‘BUT YOU’RE FAT! What do you know?’ I AM. Thanks for noticing. I’m also driven, educated, kind, qualified, smart, sassy and HUMAN. Being smaller (or bigger) wouldn’t make me more or less of any of those things."

The more mainstream media I do, the more I get comments like this.
Often it's trolls-But sometimes people have just been so conditioned by diet culture & emboldened by the internet that they don't even see the problem with their comments. www.dremmabeckett-foodnutritionscientist.com/blog/yes-im-...

I hope you're well! I miss bumping into you!

The promo for diet culture be gone at newcastle writers festival with an updated time and location banner

The new time and location as in the caption. Nuspace X321 (level 3) with a new start time of 4.30pm Sat April 5th.

Newcastle Writers festival logo - Discover the stories behind the stories.

Are you coming to Diet Culture Be Gone at #NWF2025?
We will now be in Nuspace X321 at 4.30pm - Saturday 5th of April.

Tell your friends! It's free, no need to book, but I would love to see as many of your there as possible (I have actual fears of speaking to an empty room).

Thank you friend

Hahaha it was fun and the hosts were so kind.

Oh if you’re interested it’s half price at Dangerfield! Veggie patch it’s called. I paid full price like a chump lol.

Thanks for the kindness Kaz! 🩷🩷

Me standing on the weekend today set.

A message from a troll that’s says “Just saw your segment on tv Very informative Im not trying to be nasty but how can you call yourself a nutritionist by looking how you do You obviously don't follow what you say Shame to channel nine for not having a healthy nutritionist like they do on channel seven sunrise She looks the part !”

I was a guest on Weekend today on Ch9 this morning. I know people aren’t used to seeing anything other than stick thin on TV… but my body is my body, not my qualification or business card.

Props to Today for knowing I’m fat & trusting me anyway. “Oscar” can get in the bin.

Me and the text TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING CAN BE BAD FOR YOU. That’s exactly what ‘too much’ BUT LOTS OF THINGS THAT ARE RISKY AT TOO MUCH ARE ESSENTIAL OR PERFECTLY SAFE AT LOWER AMOUNTS. Nutrition, diets and eating are not binary.

Too much of anything can be bad for you—that’s exactly what too much means...yet we constantly slide from "too much of something is a problem" right into "any of that is toxic!"
Many things that are risky in excess are essential or safe in moderation.
Nutrition isn’t black+white - neither is eating.

Blue-green I think! Thank you!

Photo of me, my hair is shorter than before, with fresh blue added to the natural dark and grey. I'm a chonky lady with pale skin, and green eyes. I'm wearing a banana print dress and banana-shaped earrings.

New hair!

Stress also messes with our guts, so I can't imagine all this worry and fear is actually helping us digest nutrients any better either!

So maybe the best nutrition advice isn’t to try harder—it’s to chill out a little. Less fear & pressure, better choices.

This was one of my aims in writing #YouAreMoreThanWhatYouEat - I didn't want to tell people *what* to eat but I wanted to empower people to stress less about it.

a series of pics of me pulling "hmmm" face and the text "Do we just need to calm down about nutrition? There's so much stress, so much judgement, so much fear and panic. Maybe if we just take a beat we can actually process the information and the nutrients a little bit better.

We talk about what to eat, but less about how we think about it. The stress, judgement & fear around food choices aren’t just exhausting—they make eating decisions harder. We don't think as clearly. We default to habits & jump to conclusions... That’s probably not helping anyone eat better.

Text that says "Can we talk about the shrinking bodies of celebrities and influencers?Sure, but..." with me pulling a stern "hmmmmm" face (i'm a chonky lady with pale skin and dark hair wearing a vegemite print dress).

For more impact we could... Focus on behaviors not bodies. Weight loss isn’t inherently problematic or anti-body positivity. Shrinking bodies can exist in an anti-diet cultre space as much as bodies that change in other ways. But if celebs or influencers use shrinking bodies to judge others, encourage harmful behaviours or sell products, that’s problematic Losing weight doesn’t ‘promote diet culture’ any more than being larger ‘promotes obesity.

For less harm we could... consider where we place the burden. Why aren’t we putting the same burden of body positive role modelling on the consistently thin celebs and influencers? Weight loss convos are gendered - women cop more hate. Celebs of colour seem to get more comments about how their weight loss impacts the body positivity and body diversity. People in large bodies get a double burden. Judged for being in a bigger body, judged when those bodies shrink.

Can we talk about the shrinking bodies of celebrities and influencers?
Yes, but - let's do it with kindness, focus on behaviours not bodies and be careful where we place the burden.

Read more at www.dremmabeckett-foodnutritionscientist.com/blog/can-we-...

Health at Every Size! It's a movement for sure.

me pulling a silly hmm face and pointing at text that says “apparently super skinny is coming back into fashion. But body types, sizes & shapes are not trends. Bodies aren’t not infinitely malleable. Being skinny, curvy or having a thigh gap can’t be a fashion or trend anymore than being tall or having detached earlobes can be. IF IT’S NOT ATTAINABLE FOR EVERYONE IT’S NOT A TREND, ITS A BIAS.

I’ve seen a lot of commentary about “super skinny coming back into fashion”.

It’s 2025 - can we please accept that bodies aren’t infinitely changeable, we can’t reconstruct them on a trend… it’s not fashion or a trend; it’s just bias.

If you’re using the #CapCut chubby filter with unkindness, you can get in the bin