June 17, 2025 • 5 mins
Shelley Loving, a nutrition chef and author of "What's On Your Fork?" joins us to discuss a dangerous new TikTok trend that glorifies starvation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm going to give you a couple of truths that
(00:01):
maybe you don't want to hear. This is West Michigan's
Morning News, Steve Kelly and Brett Mekita. You have a
daughter or a granddaughter. She's watching TikTok and a lot
of it, and we can argue all day about whether
or not that's a good idea, And chances are she
has a body image problem and there's something scary out
(00:23):
there called skinny talk. And this is our friend Shelley
Loving Back on the Liveline, nutrition chef and author of
the book What's on Your Fork? Shelley, thanks for doing
this today.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Absolutely, thank you for having me. It's such an important topic.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
One of the reasons why your daughter, your granddaughter, these
young women especially have body image problems is because of
things like TikTok and Instagram and the images that they're
seeing on other social media right.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Absolutely. I mean it's just we have too much information
out there. I think we all have information overload thanks
to the Internet and social media. So I think it's
time to kind of start reversing that and start kind
of dialing back the information that we allow in our
brain so we make clearer decisions.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What is this social media thing? It's glorifies starvation? Is
that really the thing?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know? It makes me sad as a nutrition chef,
you know, I really try to teach people to reassess
their relationship with food and really learn to love that
relationship with food, and so this just completely it is
the opposite of what I teach, and it makes me sad.
And I'm hoping my voice can help other people realize
that it can lead to very unhealthy relationships with food.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Shelly sad to say. But with adults out there and
obviously parents and maybe even grandparents looking at you know,
weight loss, drugs, or themselves having issues, we have to
remind ourselves that we're reflective of a mentorship for our kids, right,
So we got to be careful there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You're so right. I love that you brought this up.
That's such an important topic. It starts early, right, and
then also as our kids get older, even into their
early adulthood, we're still examples to them. And so how
we treat our body, what we feed our body, and
how we let our relationship with food affect us as parents,
adult mentors, it is going to reflect on children and
(02:17):
young adults.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, I was reminded over the weekend a daughter
that blew out her knee and I was sending her
inspirational videos from Lindsey Vaughn. Lexi Thompson walked past all
of us at the Meyer LPGA Classic for simply give.
These are six foot women who would shock you by
how much they weigh and how much they eat. Their
solid healthy athletes And that's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It is, It is okay. Skinny is it's not the
new normal. Healthy is the new normal. And loving your
relationship with food, but loving your longevity. So I love
to teach people you know, what you're eating at fifteen
is going to sect you at thirty, at forty. And
now that I'm almost reaching the prime age of fifty,
I want to feel good and I want to feel
good about my body as I age. And it doesn't
(03:04):
start with having skinny as a focus.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and we worry, and speaking of nutrition, talk to
us a little bit about fun ways to involve the family.
You can do quick meals with fresh natural things. We
talk about overprocessed foods, and if you buy it and
put it in the fridge and then make it, it's
so much better than peeling the top off something right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Absolutely, you want to be able to ask yourself does
this food come from nature? And how much? How many
steps has it been processed before it gets to my plate?
And that's earlier, the better recognize the food, minimal ingredients,
just eat real food. It's not a complicated concept that
ultraprocessed food industry has caused us to think about convenience
(03:46):
rather than simplicity and nutrition.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Shelley, We have a place here locally, and there's places
all over when you're talking about you know, good sized
cities or bigger where it's all about fresh. It's all
about local. Even local farmers' markets, how important than those are.
And I'm so happy that they're coming back. You're seeing
a trend. I travel all the way Saint Louis. I
can't tell you how many signs I saw from different cities.
I was going by where they had a farmer's market,
(04:09):
and I'm like, man, that's where it's at, that's where
it starts. And they're fun, right.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They're absolutely so. And you know, I talk a lot
about honey, raw local honey, and more and more people
are starting to sell it at farmers markets and it
LIFs me up to see that we're getting back to
those real foods and it's becoming a trend like farmers
markets are fun. It's a good way to spend your
Saturday morning because you're owning your health when you go
to a farmer's market, and you're also supporting local businesses.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
We were at Fulton Street like two weeks ago on
a Saturday. Yeah, impact and it's fun. Have you been
to the one in Holland?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Holy I know it, That's what I'm saying. And they
get bigger and bigger and they're all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Shelley Loving is a nutrition chef author of the book
What's on Your Fork? Get It? Give it to your
daughters and granddaughters. Stay away from skinny talk on TikTok.
Thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You're so welcome. Thanks for having me.
I'm going to give you a couple of truths that
(00:01):
maybe you don't want to hear. This is West Michigan's
Morning News, Steve Kelly and Brett Mekita. You have a
daughter or a granddaughter. She's watching TikTok and a lot
of it, and we can argue all day about whether
or not that's a good idea, And chances are she
has a body image problem and there's something scary out
(00:23):
there called skinny talk. And this is our friend Shelley
Loving Back on the Liveline, nutrition chef and author of
the book What's on Your Fork? Shelley, thanks for doing
this today.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Absolutely, thank you for having me. It's such an important topic.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
One of the reasons why your daughter, your granddaughter, these
young women especially have body image problems is because of
things like TikTok and Instagram and the images that they're
seeing on other social media right.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Absolutely. I mean it's just we have too much information
out there. I think we all have information overload thanks
to the Internet and social media. So I think it's
time to kind of start reversing that and start kind
of dialing back the information that we allow in our
brain so we make clearer decisions.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What is this social media thing? It's glorifies starvation? Is
that really the thing?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know? It makes me sad as a nutrition chef,
you know, I really try to teach people to reassess
their relationship with food and really learn to love that
relationship with food, and so this just completely it is
the opposite of what I teach, and it makes me sad.
And I'm hoping my voice can help other people realize
that it can lead to very unhealthy relationships with food.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Shelly sad to say. But with adults out there and
obviously parents and maybe even grandparents looking at you know,
weight loss, drugs, or themselves having issues, we have to
remind ourselves that we're reflective of a mentorship for our kids, right,
So we got to be careful there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You're so right. I love that you brought this up.
That's such an important topic. It starts early, right, and
then also as our kids get older, even into their
early adulthood, we're still examples to them. And so how
we treat our body, what we feed our body, and
how we let our relationship with food affect us as parents,
adult mentors, it is going to reflect on children and
(02:17):
young adults.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, I was reminded over the weekend a daughter
that blew out her knee and I was sending her
inspirational videos from Lindsey Vaughn. Lexi Thompson walked past all
of us at the Meyer LPGA Classic for simply give.
These are six foot women who would shock you by
how much they weigh and how much they eat. Their
solid healthy athletes And that's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It is, It is okay. Skinny is it's not the
new normal. Healthy is the new normal. And loving your
relationship with food, but loving your longevity. So I love
to teach people you know, what you're eating at fifteen
is going to sect you at thirty, at forty. And
now that I'm almost reaching the prime age of fifty,
I want to feel good and I want to feel
good about my body as I age. And it doesn't
(03:04):
start with having skinny as a focus.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and we worry, and speaking of nutrition, talk to
us a little bit about fun ways to involve the family.
You can do quick meals with fresh natural things. We
talk about overprocessed foods, and if you buy it and
put it in the fridge and then make it, it's
so much better than peeling the top off something right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Absolutely, you want to be able to ask yourself does
this food come from nature? And how much? How many
steps has it been processed before it gets to my plate?
And that's earlier, the better recognize the food, minimal ingredients,
just eat real food. It's not a complicated concept that
ultraprocessed food industry has caused us to think about convenience
(03:46):
rather than simplicity and nutrition.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Shelley, We have a place here locally, and there's places
all over when you're talking about you know, good sized
cities or bigger where it's all about fresh. It's all
about local. Even local farmers' markets, how important than those are.
And I'm so happy that they're coming back. You're seeing
a trend. I travel all the way Saint Louis. I
can't tell you how many signs I saw from different cities.
I was going by where they had a farmer's market,
(04:09):
and I'm like, man, that's where it's at, that's where
it starts. And they're fun, right.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They're absolutely so. And you know, I talk a lot
about honey, raw local honey, and more and more people
are starting to sell it at farmers markets and it
LIFs me up to see that we're getting back to
those real foods and it's becoming a trend like farmers
markets are fun. It's a good way to spend your
Saturday morning because you're owning your health when you go
to a farmer's market, and you're also supporting local businesses.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
We were at Fulton Street like two weeks ago on
a Saturday. Yeah, impact and it's fun. Have you been
to the one in Holland?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Holy I know it, That's what I'm saying. And they
get bigger and bigger and they're all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Shelley Loving is a nutrition chef author of the book
What's on Your Fork? Get It? Give it to your
daughters and granddaughters. Stay away from skinny talk on TikTok.
Thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You're so welcome. Thanks for having me.
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