Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, as always Danny Lennon. We're at episode

324 of the podcast today and in what is still a very kind of strange time, hopefully we'll try and get

back into some relevant nutritional and health science information that you are accustomed to

on this podcast. And today I'm delighted that I'm going to be joined by Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford,

who is really a superstar in the area of obesity medicine. And we're hoping to explore a number of different concepts,

both looking at the various treatments that are available

for people with obesity right now,

and that can range from lifestyle counseling to pharmacotherapy to surgery.

We're going to look at some of the different interventions

and how they may be used, but we're also going to look at the language that may be used

both in a client doctor setting, but also a practitioner, client setting, and then more generally

within the culture, but how the use of language communication can play a role.

And then also delve into the area of weight bias or anti-obesity bias and some of the both

psychological and metabolic health impacts that can come from there and steps that we can

try to take in order to kind of remove those from

practice to prevent some of the downsides.

And we'll also get into some interesting stuff looking at potential overlaps as well as opposition

between obesity treatment interventions that are used and the area of weight neutral approaches

and the kind of overlap and then distinctions between some of the concepts we'll talk about

today which will become abundantly clear as we start discussing it like I said

Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford is really a superstar here. She's a obesity medicine physician primarily.

She's also does research.

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