How to Prevent Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating w/ Dr. Tom Hildebrandt

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In today’s episode I sit down with with Dr. Tom Hildebrandt, clinical psychologist and director at Mount Sinai’s Center for Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders, to unpack the difference between disordered eating and eating disorders—and why that distinction matters. We dive into how to foster healthy food environments at home, when (and how) to talk to your kids about food and body image, and why regular family meals might be your best defense against future struggles. Plus: the impact of food delivery culture, what to do when kids self-soothe with snacks, and how to respond if you suspect something deeper is going on. Link to Mount Sinai's Center for Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders, HERE I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! Order your copy of The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Here: https://bit.ly/3rMLMsL Subscribe to my free newsletter for parenting tips delivered straight to your inbox: draliza.substack.com Follow me on Instagram for more: @raisinggoodhumanspodcast Sponsors: Great Wolf Lodge: Learn more at GreatWolf.com Wayfair: Head over to Wayfair.com and find something that’s just your style today Gabb: Sign up to Gabb today– no contract required– at GABB.com/HUMANS Fast Growing Trees: Get an ADDITIONAL FIFTEEN PERCENT OFF at FastGrowingTrees.com using the code HUMANS at checkout Quince: Go to Quince.com/humans for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order Beam: Shop beam.com/HUMANS and use code HUMANS for up to 35% off Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.0	As a parent in particular, you have to be of an ad mindset, not delete.
0:07.5	A deprivation mindset will lead to more problems than an ad.
0:10.7	So asking particularly an adolescent not to do something,
0:13.5	rarely has that intended effect.
0:15.2	In my experience, I don't know about you all, but like say,
0:17.8	don't do this is sort of like highlights that they should be doing it.
0:20.5	But instead you add, okay? So that they should be doing it, but instead
0:21.4	you add. Okay. So if they are, you know, making food choices that are not very good for their
0:26.6	health, have them add in other things that would compete with it that are more balanced.
0:34.9	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman, and today is a different kind of episode because it's a live conversation
0:42.5	that we had at the Mount Sinai Parenting Center about disordered eating and eating disorders.
0:48.8	And we even kept in the Q&A because the questions that came up after our conversation were exactly the
0:56.4	questions that listeners like you are having. I learned so much during our conversation about
1:03.2	disordered eating and eating disorders. I just want to get it right to you. I'm just going to
1:08.1	briefly let everybody know that Dr. Hillibrand is a clinical psychologist
1:12.2	and director of both the Center for Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders and the Hildon
1:17.2	Preston Davis Living Laboratory at the Icon School of Medicine and Mount Sinai.
1:22.0	He's an incredible resource and we're so lucky to be able to speak with him today.
1:30.5	I want to ask some really basic questions and hopefully I think they're on the minds of parents in general. I think we're certainly
1:38.3	an audience that is looking throughout the lifespan to think about how to support our kids to have healthy eating
1:46.2	habits and how to prevent disordered eating and eating disorders. So first I just want to clarify
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