There's pretty good evidence that at the core of every single eating disorder, irrespective of what it is, is what we call this over-evaluation of weight and shape.

Whereas most people without an eating disorder evaluate themselves on a variety of different

demands.

So their self-works equated with many different things like their relationships, how well-level

work, various things of that.

This does not happen with people with eating disorders.

Their self-work is essentially equated with their body weight and their body shape, So how much they weigh and what they look like.

So that over-evaluation is considered to be the core psychopathology,

the thing that is essentially driving the clinical features that we see. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

I am your host, as always, Danny Lennon,

and we're at episode 281 of the podcast today. And in just a few moments, I'm going to be joined by Dr. Jake Lennardin to talk about his research in the field of eating disorders. Before we get to that, just want to make

a quick announcement for those of you who may be interested. Just as a reminder, there are two

Sigma Nutrition events coming up this July, so July 2019 in Dublin, the first of which is on

July 20th, our seminar, Nutrition for Health Advancement,

where we're going to get into all sorts of content with a health-centric focus.

So not really looking at kind of body composition or sport performance type of stuff,

mainly looking at health-focused interventions within nutrition.

So we'll be doing a session on hot topic critiques.

So essentially looking at some of the most popular and hottest topic ideas in nutritional

science and health science right now, both from a research perspective, but also then from

mainstream media type perspective.

And kind of looking at that through with a critical mindset and try to see which is valid

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