Meet Me in the Middle

Welcome to season 2 of our podcast! We're so excited to come back from a journey through the past, right into a story about Canada's complicated and racist history around food (content warning: residential schools, child abuse and neglect). And, if you have ideas or suggestions for topics for season two, find us each on Instagram @annikabuckle and @_jennyomahony_!As two white colonizers, there's only so far we can take this discussion so please seek out resources from Indigenous Canadians:https://nctr.ca/records/reports/https://orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/Links to Ian Mosby's work:https://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/32/E1043https://fns.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/AdministeringSocialScience.mosby_.pdfMore on "21 Things You Didn't Know About the Indian Act":https://storestock.massybooks.com/item/BOZGS1Wb_0ZJVKWp3yux6whttps://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/21-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-indian-act-1.3533613The graphics we discuss in the history of the food guide:https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canada-food-guide/about/history-food-guide.htmlAnd last but CERTAINLY not least, if you have any extra resources right now, please consider a donation to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society: https://www.irsss.ca

Join us for the final instalment in our summer series as we tour through history! This episode wraps up our weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This is episode 10 and it's the last week to listen to us highlight the 2010s - notable call outs include Gwyneth and Bulletproof Coffee. Notable call-in from The Whole 30!Melissa Urban InstagramThis is the final episode of our first season and whether you're here because you just stumbled across this episode, or you've been hanging out with us for 60 episodes, we want to thank you so much for listening and joining us on this journey!

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer (and early fall), we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 9, we finally cross into the new millennium! When Y2K didn't end the world as we knew it, we got to experience the majesty of Super Size Me, follow Bikram Yoga, and use fitness technology (among other things).Be sure to also join us next week for our final instalment in our mini series, and the final episode of season one (!!), before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming into the autumn.

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 8, we journey into the 1990s! If you've been waiting for us to get to "heroin chic" as wellness, we've finally hit it this week (content warning: drug use and disordered eating).Watch this CK ad with cautionEnjoy this palate cleanser at the end

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 7, we've finally made it to a decade we were alive in - the 1980s! This week we take a deep dive into some of the more famous aspects of wellness culture in the 1980s, and we also dissect some of the larger context that's often missed when we paint things with broad brushstrokes like "low fat" or "obesity epidemic".

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 6, we talk about the 1970s. Not only was this the decade of avocado green refrigerators, it was also the decade that brought us SlimFast and the Scarsdale diet and reinging king of the 1970s, S. Daniel Abraham.

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 5, we talk about the 1960s. From a three martini lunch to the macrobiotic diet, the 60s was chock-full of wellness trends on both ends of the spectrum.Macrobiotic DietSego AdWorkout FashionThe most unhinged fad diet yet

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 4, we talk about the 1950s - the war might be over but the policing of what bodies should consume and look like continues! We finally get to the ubiquitous cabbage soup diet and the origin of the term "wellness" itself.

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.This week, in episode 3, we talk about the 1940s, which not only featured WW2, but also featured amphetamines, instant food, and saunas for weight loss. Don't worry, regardless of the world changing events there's always room to police what bodies are "supposed" to look like!Incredible 1940s video of women exercisingInteresting extra readingReduce-o-matic!