The Intersection of Ageism and Diet Culture: Why Aging Increases Risk for Disordered Eating
April 23, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
This webinar will support the RD to understand how ageism and longevity medicine intersect with diet and wellness culture to increase the risk of eating disorder relapse and the development of disordered eating in midlife and beyond.
Learning Objectives:
Following this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Recognize and dismantle Ageism in yourself and your clients.
- Identify dominant messages from longevity medicine and how this intersects with wellness culture and contributes to disordered eating thoughts and beliefs.
- Identify anti-aging messages and how they intersect with diet culture and contribute to disordered eating thoughts and beliefs.
Deb Benfield, M.Ed., RDN, LDN, RYT-200 Bio:
Deb invites you to blaze a liberating new path to a respectful, nurturing relationship with your aging body. She has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her nearly 40-year career as a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and Registered Yoga Teacher specializing in preventing and treating disordered eating. Now in her 60s, she focuses her research, training, passion, clinical, and lived experience on the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation.
Her work is rooted in helping you:
- Shift your relationship with your body from your life’s project to your life partner
- Nourish your body in midlife and beyond to support growing older in alignment with your values
- Recognize internalized ageism and end it
- Untangle from diet/wellness culture mess
- See midlife and beyond as a time of Emergence and Authenticity
Deb centers accessible practices so you can apply principles to your daily life and experience true transformation.
She offers 1:1 coaching, small group coaching, a membership community, and professional consultation. She also founded Body in Mind Nutrition, a group practice of big-hearted and highly skilled Registered Dietitians specializing in weight-neutral care and treating eating disorders. Deb is also a lover of rivers, words, and her kids and grandkids. She is currently envisioning life as a semi-nomad.
