#550: Eating Disorder Risk in Sport, Wellness & Fitness – Jillian Lampert, PhD, RD
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Eating disorders and disordered eating behaviors represent complex, multifaceted challenges that affect individuals across all demographics, yet they remain widely misunderstood and under-recognized. These issues often extend beyond the stereotypical images associated with eating disorders, touching everything from rigid "clean eating" obsessions to the normalized extremes of diet culture.
At the heart of these behaviors lies a disruption in one's relationship with food, often fueled by societal pressures, unrealistic body ideals, and a pervasive focus on aesthetics over health. While these challenges are tenacious, recovery and improved relationships with food are possible with the right interventions, resources, and awareness.
In this episode, Danny talks to Dr. Jillian Lampert, a registered dietitian with a PhD in public health nutrition, with a speciality in eating disorders and disordered eating.
Timestamps
- [02:56] – What are eating disorders? a breakdown of core concepts
- [05:15] – Beyond stereotypes: the widespread impact of eating disorders
- [14:41] – Disordered eating in sports and fitness: risks and realities
- [19:41] – Guidance for practitioners: recognizing and addressing red flags
- [22:50] – Barriers in treating eating disorders: challenges and solutions
- [43:50] – Advocacy and systemic change: the future of eating disorder care
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- Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, & Action (EDC)
- National Alliance for Eating Disorders
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 550 of the podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | My name is Danny Lennon and you are very welcome to the show. Today we're going to be talking |
| 0:12.2 | about eating disorders, both prevention and treatment, more broadly about disordered eating |
| 0:17.8 | and patterns and cognitions related to disordered eating. |
| 0:21.0 | And in a few different demographics, particularly as it relates to people that are engaging in sport, |
| 0:26.6 | whether that recreational or otherwise, wellness, the fitness industry more broadly, |
| 0:31.4 | health and fitness behaviors, and how some of the things that can become normalized |
| 0:36.6 | may be actually disordered patterns of eating, |
| 0:39.7 | and that may be potentially problematic, and that for certainly for a certain percentage of people, |
| 0:44.5 | can exacerbate or increase the risk of actually going on to develop eating disorders. |
| 0:50.6 | To go through some of these concepts, I'm going to be talking with Dr. Gillian Lamampert, who is a registered dietitian, as well as having a PhD in public health nutrition, and has been working in the field of eating disorders for decades now, and has had a whole range of different interests within that, including this intersection of sport and disordered eating. And so over the course of her |
| 1:12.0 | three decades of experience, she has become a leading voice in nutrition education and eating |
| 1:16.5 | disorder prevention, treatment and advocacy. In addition to her PhD in public health nutrition, |
| 1:22.6 | Dr. Lampur also holds a dual master's degrees in public health and nutritional sciences, as well as being a registered |
| 1:28.8 | and licensed dietitian. She is a fellow at the Academy for Eating Disorders, and for close to 20 |
| 1:34.9 | years now has been a member of the Emily Program, which is a leading eating disorder treatment |
| 1:40.0 | provider. So based on this wealth of experience, both in practice as well as looking at some of these |
| 1:44.7 | concepts, we'll be able to walk through some of these ideas and hopefully put some of the |
| 1:50.5 | core concepts on your radar that you can go and then investigate further. If you are a Sigma Nutrition |
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