Episodes
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Podcast: Study shows diet talk and behaviour passes down through generations
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Friday Mar 23, 2018
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Jerica Berge about a new study illistrating how diet talk and encouragement to diet can be passed down through generations
Parent Encouragement to Diet From Adolescence Into Adulthood May Cause Intergenerational Harm
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In this longitudinal study 556 adolescents were surveyed when in school and again after 15 years in adulthood and/or parenthood to evaluate the association between parental encouragement to diet in adolescence and health outcomes in adult life. Significant association was observed between parent encouragement to diet in adolescence and an increased risk of overweight or obesity, dieting, binge eating, unhealthy weight control behaviors, and lower body satisfaction in adulthood. In addition, the authors noted an intergenerational transmission of encouragement to diet in the home environment.
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Clinicians should inform parents about the potentially harmful and enduring outcomes associated with encouraging their children to diet.
Jerica M. Berge, Ph.D., MPH, LMFT, CFLE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Berge is both a behavioral medicine clinician and researcher. Dr. Berge is a licensed mental health therapist and supervisor who specializes in integrated care and community-based partnerships to address family health issues. She has developed and evaluated several family-focused models of care within family medicine clinics including, group prenatal care for high risk pregnant mothers, integrated care clinic, and childhood obesity prevention and treatment interventions via well-child visits. Dr. Berge is one of the most cited authors on family dynamics and childhood health with over 100 publications and book chapters and 300 presentations. She has an impressive funding trajectory including K12, R21, R03, R56, and R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Recovery Stories: Kayla K and why all diets should be damned!
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Friday Mar 16, 2018
In this podcast, Tabitha chats to Kayla Kotecki about her path to recovery, and the story behind damnthediets.com.
We talk about:
- unrestricted eating
- diet culture
- obcessive and complusive exercise
- bikini contest culture
- social pressures to lose weight and exercise
- extreme hunger
Learn more about Kayla here:
http://damnthediets.com/
Thursday Mar 08, 2018
Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover: Force feeding yourself as an adult.
Thursday Mar 08, 2018
Thursday Mar 08, 2018
In this podcast I talk about the skill of being able to force feed yourself as an adult in recovery from anorexia.
In the process of making yourself eat food you are afraid of you achieve both nutritional rehabiliation and neural rewiring goals. You train your brain that these foods are not a threat to you, and you eat the types of food that your body really needs in order to get out of malnutrition.
When you are faced with food that you are not used to eating, or in larger quantites that you usually allow yourself to eat, you go into your sympathetic nervous system -- that's the fight or flight one. Food doesn't taste that good when you are stressed about it! But, if you continue to force yourself to eat, your brain learns that the food is not a threat, and in time, you remain calm when eating. This is what leads to the neural rewiring of your brain that these foods are not a threat to you.
Friday Mar 02, 2018
Recovery Stories: Recovery with kids
Friday Mar 02, 2018
Friday Mar 02, 2018
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to an adult in recovery from anorexia who has young children. We talk about things children pick up on, dealing with children when you are going through recovery stress, and ways of talking to young children about eating disorders.