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! 

• [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.

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