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Weight Stigma and diet (with Jeanette Thompson-Wessen)

The Fat Doctor Podcast

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The Effects of Diets on Hunger Hormones

Diet has forgotten important biological processes that go on with in our body. These biological processes aren't things we can trick ourselves out of or into. They are there because we need them for actual survival. Our hunger and our hunger hormones are exactly the same. We have a number of hunger hormones, but I won't go into all of them right now as otherwise we will be here for the next hour. But we have these hunger hormones that tell us when we need to eat. So diets tend to completely basically say to us that it's all willpower, it's all determination. Whereas actually it's not us failing the diet whatsoever. The diet has literally forgotten on purpose.

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