Understanding Obesity – From Stigma to Solutions

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, associate professor, author, and co-owner of the Bariatric Medical Institute, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff. Yoni is on a mission to destigmatize obesity and shed light on the life-changing pharmaceutical therapies available to patients. Yoni and Danielle address the impact weight stigma has on the quality of medical care for individuals with obesity and how we need to stop blaming patients for this complex, multi-factorial, neuro-hormonal condition. With these changes, the days of the diet guru will be dead and gone! Danielle and Yoni discuss: Solutions for healthcare providers to evaluate their own bias in order to improve the quality of care for patients Advice for patients who have obesity to advocate for themselves while navigating this stigma in healthcare The physical and mental health benefits of various treatments Why patients deserve individualized, personalized recommendations for weight management Yoni Freedhoff, MD, is an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa, and he is the founder and medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute. He is the author of the #1 national bestseller, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work. Dr. Freedhoff is a sought-after international speaker and has made appearances on The Today Show, feature-length documentaries, The New York Times, and more. Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review, and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Yoni @yonifreedhoff and check out his blog Weighty Matters. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: DIPSEA - go to dipseastories.com/drdanielle for a free 30 day trial. COZY EARTH - Go to cozyearth.com and enter WELLNESS at checkout to SAVE thirty-five Percent. FITON - Text WELLNESS to 64-000 to join FitOn for free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:05.5	We know that doctors are less likely to order screening tests the same way in patients
0:13.8	with obesity.
0:14.8	We know that weight stigma as a whole, when we look at weight stigma and see if there's
0:19.0	an association with, weight itself, the people who experience greater degrees of weight
0:23.7	stigma tend to struggle more with their weight.
0:34.7	Welcome to Wellness Fact vs. Fiction.
0:37.3	I'm Dr. Danielle Bullardo, and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based medicine and nutrition
0:41.9	science.
0:42.9	But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness fads take over social media.
0:47.4	It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians
0:51.2	and scientists to help us determine what is fact vs. fiction when it comes to your health.
0:56.7	It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our
1:01.2	wellness.
1:03.2	Hi everyone.
1:10.6	This week I am so excited to introduce to our guest, good friend of mine, Yoni Friedhoff.
1:16.2	He's an associate professor of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, the medical director
1:20.2	of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Constant Health, and an outspoken public health advocate.
1:26.0	His book, The Diet Fix, was a number one national bestseller and his blog, Weedy Metters,
1:30.1	is enjoyed over 24 million visits.
1:32.9	He's also a columnist in medscape, he's got bi-lines with the New York Times, and he's
1:37.2	a regular international media outspoken personality who helps us to understand evidence-based medicine
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