Overweight and Healthy? Examining the "Healthy at Every Size" Movement
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Can a person be both healthy and overweight? "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster to discuss the Healthy At Every Size movement.
The concept weighs whether too much emphasis is put on a person's weight and too little on the overall picture. As a person who lost 280 pounds, Chuck shares his opinion about that theory and how it may be perceived by those still struggling with their weight.
Dr. Yami also addresses the misconception that children can eat whatever they want without penalty. She explains the steep price that can be paid later in life for the high-fat and high-calorie foods eaten during our formative years. The seeds for heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other chronic illnesses are planted early in life even if they don't blossom until adulthood.
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Chuck Carroll
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, I'm definitely saying that you can be of a larger weight and metabolically, you can be healthy. |
| 0:05.6 | You do have this group of individuals who are completely overweight, eating completely out of control, |
| 0:13.2 | but they boast about it. They are prideful about it. And they don't even attempt to be healthy. |
| 0:19.4 | You have major celebrities who, by the way, eat a plant-based diet, but it's all of this vegan junk food. |
| 0:25.5 | That kind of washes out what it is you're trying to say here with the healthy at every size if you have |
| 0:30.6 | this person say, hey, it's good to be this way. Don't worry about anything else. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:48.1 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen |
| 0:54.1 | or a view or a download wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the fact that you |
| 1:01.6 | are here. It is a great debate on the show today. Is it possible? Actually possible to be healthy |
| 1:14.7 | at any size. Whether you're 100 pounds, 200 pounds, 300 or 400 pounds, is it possible to be healthy? |
| 1:28.7 | Is a gentleman who has lost 280 pounds? This is one that I am wrestling with. And many people |
| 1:40.2 | are also wrestling with this. But my guest today is going to help us look at this great debate |
| 1:50.9 | in a new light. Help us see what she says we've been missing when having these arguments |
| 2:00.4 | and trying to come to a consensus. For Dr. Yammy, it's really not about weight at all. |
| 2:13.1 | And she says that despite the fact that this is a conversation about a person's body size, |
| 2:21.3 | we should not be talking about weight. |
| 2:23.7 | But she also brings some other really great points to the table. And so on today's show, we are |
| 2:38.4 | going to have that debate. Is it truly possible to be overweight, to be any size, and to still be healthy? |
| 3:00.6 | A lot of people get confused about whether or not you can be healthy at every size. Is that a myth |
| 3:08.3 | or is there really something to that? We're going to talk about that right now. With my next guest, |
| 3:13.2 | she is a board certified pediatrician. She is a mother. She is a health coach and she is an author. |
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