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841: Adam Bornstein | The Real Skinny on the Weight Loss Industry

May 30, 20231 hr 23 minEp 841Transcript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Adam Bornstein (@BornFitness) is the founder of Born Fitness, an award-winning writer and editor in the fitness space, and a bestselling author. His latest book is You Can't Screw This Up: Why Eating Takeout, Enjoying Dessert, and Taking the Stress out of Dieting Leads to Weight Loss That Lasts.

What We Discuss with Adam Bornstein:
  • Why are more than 70 percent of Americans overweight or obese despite 40 percent of men and 60 percent of women observing multiple diets per year?
  • The common misbeliefs and flawed mindsets around fitness and weight loss perpetuated by a wellness industry that prioritizes its profits over the people it purports to help.
  • How the wellness industry inflates bogus "sciencey" claims in order to fool us into buying routines, diets, and supplements that, at best, do nothing for us.
  • What calorie restriction really does to the brain.
  • How extreme, all-or-none beliefs make us fail our fitness goals, and what we can do to actually move the progress needle forward.
  • And much more...

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