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Age Better with Liz Earle

How to change your relationship with food, with Dr David A. Kessler

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

Self-improvement, Fitness, Gut Health, Supplements, Beauty, Health, Hormones, Health & Fitness, Liz Earle, Exercise, Healthy Ageing, Menopause, Better Second Half, Women's Health, Arts, Wellbeing, Education, Midlife, Fashion & Beauty, Skincare

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Are you an emotional or over eater? Leading medic and former head of the US FDA Dr David A. Kessler joins Liz to take a deeper look at how our food environment encourages to eat more than we really need to.


David and Liz discuss why we need to be concerned about ectopic and visceral fat, and David gives his take on why obesity is steeply rising.


They also reveal practical solutions to stop overeating, whether weight loss injections can be helpful for long-term weight management, and how we can change attitudes to ultra-processed foods.


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0:00.0

I've sort of thought about how I eat, and I certainly, you know, wasn't eating for fuel.

0:06.8

I was eating to change how I feel.

0:09.6

There's this concept of cue-induced wanting.

0:12.8

There is something stimulates me, something cues me.

0:16.9

I have these thoughts of wanting.

0:19.3

I needed to make me feel better.

0:21.9

And if I try to resist, you know, then it turns into a craving.

0:28.3

Now, do you feel that you are addicted to food?

0:31.9

Dr. David A. Kessler is clear that our modern food environment is making it too easy for us to put on an unhealthy amount of weight.

0:41.5

This is the Lizal Well-Being Show. I'm Lizelle, and I'm here to help us all find ways to thrive in later life with conversations and information that will genuinely help us all have a better second half, that being the title of my latest book, of course.

0:58.4

And I truly mean that. I am on a genuine mission here for all of us to look and feel better, so that we not only survive aging, but we're thriving with our aging.

1:09.1

And all throughout September, we are thinking about resetting our habits after summer.

1:13.7

You know, it's so important we have those moments of rest and a break from routine with holidays and the like.

1:19.5

But now is a good moment to get back on track and think more about the healthy routines that we'd really feel better by coming back to.

1:27.4

And last week, we talked about changing better by coming back to. And last week we talked about

1:29.0

changing our relationships with the Sun and SPF in particular. Do listen back to that if you

1:35.4

haven't already. Very fascinating chat with consultant dermatologist Dr. Veronique Batai,

1:41.1

the melanoma specialist. And today is our food environment not only enabling us,

1:47.3

but prompting us to eat beyond our hunger and physical needs. Yes, we're going to be resetting

1:53.6

our relationships with food. Dr David A. Kessler served as chief science officer of the White

2:00.2

White House COVID-19 response team,

2:02.2

and he previously served as Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

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