1527: The 3 Step Solution to the Obesity Epidemic
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover the origins, challenges and solutions of the obesity epidemic.
- Interesting statistics that highlight the obesity epidemic. (2:11)
- The clinical definition of obesity. (3:00)
- Why fix the obesity epidemic? (5:38)
- The importance of having an honest conversation. (8:35)
- How being obese affects your mental health. (10:32)
- Self-image versus body image. (12:15)
- You have to change your approach. (14:54)
- What caused this problem? (20:38)
- The 3 Step Solution to the Obesity Epidemic.
- #1 – Dramatically reduce heavily processed foods from your diet. (35:06)
- #2 – Build strength and muscle. (38:42)
- #3 – Increase awareness around being distracted while consuming food. (46:40)
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health entertainment podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | This is Mind Pump. |
| 0:17.5 | Alright, in today's episode, we talk about the obesity epidemic. |
| 0:22.5 | We are in an epidemic, which has been around now for a few decades. |
| 0:26.0 | It's causing some real problems. |
| 0:29.0 | And in this episode, we actually give you the solution. |
| 0:32.0 | No joke. |
| 0:33.0 | The three things that we think could solve this problem. |
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