Dr. Yoni Freedhoff: Obesity, Weight Management & Childhood Nutrition

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!      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.       Find Out More About Dr. Yoni: Weighty Matters Twitter       Find Out More About LTB: Website Instagram Facebook