#302 'Body Positivity' Is Harming Women - Helene & Penelope
Real Talk with Zuby
Zuby
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Zuby is joined by mother-daughter duo, Helene Leeds and Penelope Popken — hosts of the Step It UP Podcast. Helene and Penelope sit down to discuss their personal journeys with health, wellness, and fitness, the challenges of obesity in a family dynamic and the health industry writ large. We dive
into the Body Positivity movement, weight-loss and enabling social behaviors, diet and personal responsibility, food regulations and a whole lot more.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(09:55) Psychological impacts of obesity & enabling behaviour
(18:06) Body positivity differences between men & women
(25:13) What age should children use smart devices?
(26:55) Penelope’s weight loss process
(34:05) How Helen handled Penelope’s weight challenges
(39:59) The Body Positivity movement
(44:35) Algorithmic amplification vs genuine ideological alliance
(49:35) Diet & personal responsibility
(59:44) Dangers & addictions of sugar
(1:03:22) Food regulations & personal responsibility
(1:08:30) Toxic load management
(1:12:28) Societal alignment on definition of obesity & health
(1:20:16) ‘Wellcare’ & what to do now
(1:28:27) Outro
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| 0:00.0 | With COVID, what we really started to understand was that a lot of children get all of their food at school. |
| 0:05.0 | And so as a first priority, like cleaning up the act of the government, what the government's providing for pain. |
| 0:23.0 | I do not scam. |
| 0:24.0 | Put some respect on my name. |
| 0:26.0 | Sick like a pain. |
| 0:27.0 | Click it a bang. |
| 0:28.0 | Y'all will remember the name. |
| 0:30.0 | What's up ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world. I would like to welcome you back to the real talk with Zubi podcast and for the first time today |
| 0:37.2 | We have got on a mother-daughter duo. They are the co-founders of the company Step it up. They are the co-founder of the company Step It Up. They are helping people to get in |
| 0:46.1 | better shape and this is Helene and Penelope. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:49.6 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:50.9 | Okay, so I've done a brief intro there. |
| 0:53.0 | I know who you both are. |
| 0:54.0 | I've met you before. |
| 0:55.8 | But for people who are not familiar with yourselves, please introduce yourselves. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm Penelope and I used to be 300 pounds and I've lost 140 pounds since and it |
| 1:06.3 | inspired me to start this right last company with my mom, Helene. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm Helene Leeds and I co-founded this company with Penelope. |
| 1:13.7 | She founded it really when she was 11 and I've been helping people to get healthy for the last |
| 1:18.8 | almost 30 years. |
| 1:20.6 | Weight loss has been in the realm of what I do but more it's about energy. |
| 1:25.0 | That's really what ends up being the big thing that people get after working with me. |
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