62: How Each of Us Can Help Prevent Struggles with Food and Body Image

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Nutrition, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

"No one is responsible for causing eating disorders...but, everyone is responsible to help prevent them." This was one of the many amazingly profound things Dr. Levine said during this podcast episode.

Dr. Michael Levine is a retired psychology professor who has spent the majority of his career researching the question of how to prevent eating disorders. His career has been full of advocacy for women, body image concerns and prevention of eating disorders.

In this episode we talk about his research and advocacy for a better, more kind world about these sensitive issues. We also talk about how each of us can help shift the tide toward a better cultural environment that decreases the risk of eating disorder development. He also shared about a specific intervention that a world-renowned body image researcher did with a group of ballerinas that had incredible results and that is directly related to how each of us can improve our personal relationship with food and our bodies.

You are going to love this conversation with Michael! His ideas about prevention and advocacy are so important for the health and happiness of the rising generation and each of us.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Niva Piran 's research interests and research articles
Contact Dr. Michael Levine: levine@kenyon.edu

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1:03.2	Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me for another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. I'm Paige,
1:08.7	your host, and I'm so glad that you're here with me today.
1:12.3	Today I'm interviewing Dr. Michael Levine, who is a retired psychologist and professor,
1:18.2	and he has done decades of work in the field of eating disorders, in prevention and advocacy,
1:25.2	as well as gender issues and feminism. He is a champion of all of those
1:31.1	things and has such a great perspective on the topic for today, which is we're going to be talking
1:36.6	about what each of us can do in our own lives and in our own selves, plus in our communities
1:43.1	and families to help prevent eating disorders.
1:46.0	Now, you know, eating disorders are complex. It's not one easy thing we switch that changes it,
1:51.7	but wouldn't it be useful to talk about how we as a culture can change and do a little bit better
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