Podcast Guest on Speaking of Hungry with Alison Barkman

Amber helps cancer patients manage treatment side effects, goal-setting strategies to support nourishment and healing both during and after treatment works with cancer patients to help them uses compassionate mindset work to help clients examine deep-held beliefs about food and cancer, overcome food fears, and empower their survivorship journey through food after treatment.

This is a great conversation whether you have a personal connection with cancer or are simply curious about the claims surrounding diet, nutrition, weight, and cancer risk. We chat about:

• Her path to becoming a dietitian specializing in oncology and how her approach leaned toward intuitive eating and Health At Every Size (HAES). 

• How weight bias and weight stigma is a result of our society normalizing diets, disordered eating behaviors, and the pursuit to lose weight as “healthy”. 

• Amber reflects on the weight stigma her cancer clients are faced with and how it affects their ability to nourish themselves and heal during and after treatment.

• The harm we are doing by trying to intentionally change our body size when in a vast majority of cases maintaining weight loss and smaller body size is not sustainable.

• The sad reality that many cancer patients are coming into treatment believing their body size is part of the reason they have cancer. 

• How many cancer patients start treatment believing it will help them “finally lose the weight”.

  Plus so much more!