We get bombarded with mixed messages about food in our culture. Often we want to make our kids happy and show them love by baking cup cakes, but there's this simultaneous pressure for them to be thin. Large body size correlates with being of lower socio economics dot as. That has a huge impact on your health, as you know. We don't know that it's the body weight itself causing the prop - what we do know is that people in larger bodies tend to have other things going on.
Every January nearly 75 percent of Americans resolve to make their lives better by losing weight. But this year we’re breaking free from the cycle of restrictive eating and spiraling shame. Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith, host and author of Burnt Toast and The Eating Instinct, has some eye-opening tips for our listener Tori that will help her ditch the scale, become more comfortable with her body, and even learn to control sugar cravings—by eating as many sweets as she wants.
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