DESCRIPTION:
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and since 2004, the medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute, an ethical, evidence-based, interprofessional weight management centre. We discuss why a compassionate approach to obesity is absolutely necessary, how to help our clients manage their weight, reducing scale weight importance, whether education changes behaviour, childhood nutrition and much, much more. I know you’re going to enjoy this episode, just make sure you’ve got somewhere to take notes as there are a bunch of times you’ll want to pause and write something down!
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Timestamps:
- [01.55] – Why obesity isn’t as simple as move more eat less.
- [05.00] – Why personal responsibility is always touted as the most important part of obesity.
- [07.30] – How we can improve the message we put out there about obesity.
- [09.35] – Does education help behaviour change?
- {12.26] – What country is leading the way in terms of weight management?
- [14.23] – Why environment is the main element of weight management.
- [16.14] – How knowing that environment is important for his patients informs his practice.
- [18.55] – How to teach our clients that exercise is not just something that burns calories and is used to lose weight.
- [20.32] – What we know for sure about weight management
- [23.50] – Does he think PTs should be working with their clients on behaviour change around nutrition?
- [25.59] – The two questions he asks his patients to consider when they want to eat junk food.
- [21.13] – How important is a clients why.
- [34.35] – What role the scales play in helping clients maintain weight loss.
- [37.55] – Helping clients remove the scales importance.
- [39.20] – Underreporting calorie intake.
- [44.55] – Helping kids develop healthy relationships with food.