#198: Preventing Disordered Eating in the Next Generation with Lauren Muhlheim, Psychologist and Eating-Disorder Specialist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Eating-disorders psychologist Lauren Muhlheim joins us to discuss how we can model a peaceful relationship with food for the kids in our lives, the problem with “childhood obesity” interventions, how some eating-disorder-treatment methods are being co-opted for weight loss, the rise of orthorexia, weight bias in medicine and the eating-disorders field, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about the Biggest Loser reboot.
Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., FAED, CEDS is a psychologist, certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS), and IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) - approved supervisor who provides evidence-based treatment for eating disorders in the outpatient setting. She directs Eating Disorder Therapy LA in Los Angeles and is able to provide teletherapy in California and New York. She provides cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adults and family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents and adheres to Health at Every Size® principles. She is certified in FBT by the Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders.
Dr. Muhlheim is the author of When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Overcome Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating, published by New Harbinger Publications in September, 2018. This book is an FBT-based book for parents who are helping adolescents with eating disorders.
Dr. Muhlheim is active in several professional organizations. Dr Muhlheim is the Eating Disorders Expert for Verywell (formerly About.com) and is Clinical Director of the Eating Disorder Information website, Mirror-Mirror Eating Disorders. She presents nationally to parents, professionals, and trainees. She is active on social media and in eating disorder advocacy efforts. Find her online at EatingDisorderTherapyLA.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body |
| 0:05.6 | liberation and taking down diet culture. I'm your host Kristi Harrison and I'm an |
| 0:10.4 | anti-diet, registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor and author of |
| 0:15.0 | the forthcoming book, Anti-Diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being and |
| 0:19.5 | happiness through intuitive eating. Join me here every week as I talk with |
| 0:23.5 | interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with food and |
| 0:27.2 | their bodies. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 198 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and |
| 0:58.4 | today I'm talking with Lauren Mulheim, an eating disorder psychologist who practices |
| 1:02.7 | from a health at every size paradigm and specializes in helping kids and families recover |
| 1:07.5 | from disordered eating. We discuss how we can model a peaceful relationship with food |
| 1:12.0 | for the kids in our lives, the problem with quote unquote childhood obesity interventions, |
| 1:17.0 | ugh, even that term, how some eating disorder treatment methods are being co-opted for weight |
| 1:21.7 | loss, the rise of orthorexia, weight bias in medicine and eating disorders field, and |
| 1:27.5 | so much more. I can't wait to share a conversation with you in just a moment. But first I'll answer |
| 1:32.2 | this week's listener question, which is from a listener with initials bh who writes, |
| 1:36.5 | Christy, the biggest loser is back and I am scared. I thought we had already learned |
| 1:41.1 | how sick the contestants were after being on that show and how abusive it is and apparently |
| 1:46.0 | not. It's making it come back in 2020 and the focus is supposed to be on quote unquote |
| 1:50.7 | wellness. This is a huge concern. How is this happening? And what are dieticians saying |
| 1:55.9 | about this? You talk a lot about the myths of the wellness diet and I would love to hear |
| 2:00.1 | your thoughts on the return of the biggest loser. I feel like this is a crisis. So thanks |
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