Originally designed to treat diabetes, GLP-1 analogs are now prescribed as weight loss medications. But is this a good idea and should parents allow their kids to try this if they want to lose weight? Can these drugs increase the rates of eating disorders among young people?
Diet pills have been around for decades and historically have been pulled from the m ... Show More
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Postpartum PTSD: What Parents Need to Know
What if giving birth left you with nightmares, hypervigilance, and a constant sense of dread — and no one believed you? Worse, what if you didn’t think it mattered because, after all, the baby is healthy? In this eye-opening episode, host Gabe Howard talks with ADAA member expert ... Show More
20m 58s
Jun 26
When Is Picky Eating a Disorder? Understanding ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
Is your child a picky eater, or is it something more serious — and how can you tell? Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) goes far beyond food preferences. It’s driven by deep-seated fears of choking, vomiting, or other anxieties that can lead to dangerous nutritiona ... Show More
21m 30s
Jun 2023
ReShape Teenage Health | With Dr. Carole Wehbe Chidiac, Family Medicine Consultant Specialized in Eating Disorders and Sports & Exercise Medicine
According to a report by Common Sense Media, teenagers are more likely to be influenced than many other age groups and are highly responsive to messages that appeal to their desire to fit in, be popular and be seen as attractive - which some times ends up creating weight stigma w ... Show More
56m 22s
Sep 2019
#205: Disordered Eating, Athletes, and Why HAES Is for Every Body with Lindsay Krasna, Certified Eating-Disorders Dietitian and Health At Every Size Advocate
Certified eating-disorders dietitian Lindsay Krasna joins us to discuss disordered eating among athletes, why eating disorders are less of a pathology and more of a reaction to diet culture, the role of thin privilege and economic privilege in people’s relationships with food, wh ... Show More
1h 14m
Sep 2022
Obesity and Weight Loss with Endocrinologist Rocio Salas-Whalen
In today’s episode of the podcast, I interview Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen, owner of New York Endocrinology on Park Avenue. Dr. Salas-Whalen has deep expertise in diabetes, metabolism, obesity, thyroid abnormalities and other endocrine disorders. She completed her internal medicine re ... Show More
41m 15s
Jun 2020
#245: Recovering from COVID-19 While Fat with Plus-Size Yoga Teacher Rachel Estapa, and Parenting Without Diet Culture with Anti-Diet Dietitian Anna Lutz
Anti-diet dietitian Anna Lutz joins us to discuss why it doesn’t make sense to provide both eating-disorder treatment and weight management, the influence of diet culture on parenting, how to provide structure for kids’ eating without creating restriction, managing picky eating, ... Show More
1h 26m
Aug 2016
Neal Barnard, M.D. On The Power of Nutrition To Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease, Diabetes & Alzheimer’s
“Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use. It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.”Neal Barnard, M.D.
There's nothing I can do — it's genetic.Without a doubt, many of us have predispositions to de ... Show More
2h 1m
Feb 2024
Special Edition: A Focus on Obesity, Part 1 – February 2024
In this special series on Obesity, our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik will discuss the Obesity epidemic with some of the foremost experts in the world. In Part I we will focus on the epidemiology of obesity, social disparities with regard to obesity, obesity as a chronic disease, the con ... Show More
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