Ep. 294 - Family Fasting Habits & Metabolic Health Crisis | Teaching Kids About Food as Fuel | Generational Health Change Through IF | Waist-Height Ratio vs BMI | Breaking the Obesity Cycle at Home | Join Our Next Fasting Challenge!

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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***JOIN THE NEXT MASTER YOUR FASTING CHALLENGE THAT STARTS August 13th, 2025!*** We’ll GUIDE you on how to FAST to LOSE FAT for good, and use ‘fast cycling’ to achieve uncommon results! REGISTER HERE! Click the link for DATES, DETAILS, and FAQs! This episode addresses the alarming metabolic health crisis affecting American families, with shocking CDC data revealing that 1 in 3 adolescents (33%) now meet prediabetes criteria - up 5% in just two years. Dr. Scott and Tommy explore how 74% of Americans are overweight or obese, with severe obesity tripling since 2008, and discuss why traditional BMI measurements miss the crucial factor of visceral fat and insulin resistance. Learn why metabolic health matters more than the number on the scale, with practical strategies for measuring waist-to-height ratio and understanding body composition versus simple weight tracking. The hosts share real-world parenting approaches for creating healthy family food environments without restricting children's growth, including their "8-to-8 kitchen hours" rule, teaching kids to distinguish between hunger and boredom, and explaining food as fuel rather than creating "good food/bad food" shame cycles. Discover how intermittent fasting principles can naturally integrate into family routines through consistent meal timing, post-dinner kitchen closure, and modeling healthy relationships with food. This episode provides actionable strategies for breaking generational health patterns, including how to discuss nutrition with children using car/superhero analogies, involving kids in meal planning, and creating positive food conversations that emphasize what to include rather than restrict. Essential listening for parents, grandparents, and anyone wanting to influence their family's long-term metabolic health while understanding the deeper health markers that truly matter beyond scale weight. ⁠Take the NEW FASTING PERSONA QUIZ! - The Key to Unlocking Sustainable Weight Loss With Fasting!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Resources and Downloads: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SIGN UP FOR THE DROP OF THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GRAB THE OPTIMAL RANGES FOR LAB WORK HERE! - NEW RESOURCE! ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE RESOURCE - DOWNLOAD THE NEW BLUEPRINT TO FASTING FOR FAT LOSS!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SLEEP GUIDE DIRECT DOWNLOAD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DOWNLOAD THE FASTING TRANSFORMATION JOURNAL HERE!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Partner Links: Get your⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FREE BOX OF LMNT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠25% off a Keto-Mojo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ blood glucose and ketone monitor (discount shown at checkout)! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our Community: Let’s continue the conversation. Click the link below to JOIN the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fasting For Life Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a group of like-minded, new, and experienced fasters! The first two rules of fasting need not apply! If you enjoy the podcast, please tap the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds, and it helps bring you the best original content each week. We also enjoy reading them! Article Links: https://www.levels.com/blog/what-can-weight-tell-you-about-your-metabolic-health?__s=72dghf497nkahcwgdg5y https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.html

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Fasting for Life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott White here, and I'm here as always with my good friend and colleague, Tommy Welling. Good afternoon to you, sir.
0:07.8	Hey, Scott. How are you? Doing fantastic, my friend. excited to have a great conversation with you today.
0:14.0	The jumping off point is going to be one that really hits home for both of us and both of our families and some of our goals
0:22.5	here at Fasting for Life, which is to help change the path of the generational health of our
0:27.5	families, but also our friends, our circle of influence, most importantly our country.
0:33.3	And it's really going to have a conversation around, and this came out of a Levels article,
0:38.5	what can weight tell you about your metabolic health?
0:41.1	So we're going to talk a lot about metabolic health, health metrics, the flaws in the system.
0:46.8	But really, the second part of this, or the adjunct conversation around this,
0:52.0	is the data that just came out from the CDC
0:55.6	about the epidemic that we're seeing from the National Health and Nutrition
1:01.4	Examined Study, the NHA N-N-E-S run by the CDC.
1:05.2	So we're going to give you some actionable things on how to implement a fasting lifestyle,
1:09.6	how to talk to your kids about food
1:11.0	and healthy food choices. So I'm really excited to kind of talk through this, give you some
1:15.7	of the things that we do, but most importantly come from this big picture standpoint of how do we
1:21.2	get the weight off and keep it off and how that's related to your metabolic health and not
1:25.8	just a silly little number on the scale. So if you're new to the podcast, welcome in. It's related to your metabolic health and not just a silly little number on the scale.
1:28.6	So if you're new to the podcast, welcome in.
1:31.2	It's going to be a fun conversation.
1:32.5	If you want to know more about how fasting and the fasting lifestyle has transformed my life,
1:38.2	Tommy's life, our journeys, why we do what we do week in and week out,
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