What is Weight Stigma? with Dr. Rebecca Puhl

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Dr. Rebecca Puhl, Deputy Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, joins Adam to deep dive into the concept of weight stigma and how often we misunderstand the science of weight gain. Rebecca covers the relationship between weight stigma and eating disorders, the role personal behavior does and does not play into weight gain, how “genes load the gun but environment pulls the trigger,” weight bias in the medical field, what to say to yourself when you look in the mirror, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 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	This is a HeadGum podcast. I don't know what to think
0:13.0	I don't know what to say
0:16.0	and that's all right
0:19.0	yeah that's all right
0:21.0	yeah that's okay
0:22.0	I don't know.
0:23.0	I don't know.
0:28.0	Hello, welcome to factually. I'm Adam Conover.
0:31.0	I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I did I didn't go anywhere or do anything. I just sat on my
0:39.8	couch as time passed as the Lord intended I think but we're back at work now we're back doing
0:47.0	podcast episode so let's do one let's talk about my potbelly I've always
0:52.0	had it it's always been with me. It's been my constant
0:54.7	companion my whole life. You know it's been bigger or smaller at certain points,
0:58.8	but it's always just been there, you know, kind of a buddy. You know, when I stand a certain way in the mirror, you see a little poaching outwards, and you'll never not see it. I was born with this thing and I will die with it. And I've also always felt bad about it. Like I have a little
1:15.8	self-consciousness, a little bit of guilt, why is it there, is it my fault, you know,
1:20.1	all these bad feelings. And that's weird to me because you know when I think
1:24.1	about it take a 10,000 foot view well hey it's just a part of my body again it's
1:28.4	been there since birth I mean this thing is literally in baby photos look at a photo of me at one year old I
1:34.7	look like Homer Simpsons I swear okay so it's not like I did anything to get it
1:40.2	it's there no matter what I do you know I eat healthy I run quite a lot it's just some
1:46.9	cocktail combination of genetics environment and who knows what else that causes me to
1:52.0	have this thing it's just the way that my body is.
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