{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Just A Mom Podcast","title":"Episode 58: Dr. Samantha De Caro, The Renfrew Center","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3481,"description":"Introduction: In this episode of the JAM podcast, we explore eating disorders with Dr. Samantha DeCaro, a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. DeCaro discusses the prevalence, causes, and prevention of eating disorders, touching on the complex relationship with mental health, anxiety, and depression.\n\nPandemic's Impact on Eating Disorders:\nIsolation during the pandemic contributed to eating disorders.\nIncrease in social media use, body dissatisfaction, and comparison.\nFood insecurity, anxiety, grief, and loss as triggering factors.\n\nFactors Contributing to Eating Disorders:\nSocial media's role in body image dissatisfaction.\nChallenging myths about who can have an eating disorder.\nAwareness efforts lead to increased diagnoses.\n\nPopulations at Higher Risk:\nElevated risk for those identifying as female.\nLGBTQ+ community, victims of weight stigma, and those feeling unsafe at heightened risk.\n\nDifference Between Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating:\nEating disorders as complex psychiatric disorders.\nDisordered eating exists on a spectrum, ranging from clinical disorders to healthy relationships with food.\n\nCommon Eating Disorder Protective Factors:\nAvoiding dieting behaviors, promoting body acceptance.\nEncouraging a healthy relationship with food beyond fuel.\nBreaking down scarcity mindset and fostering body diversity awareness.\n\nPromoting Healthy Attitudes in Children:\nImportance of language around food and body image.\nTeaching that all bodies come in different shapes and sizes.\nEncouraging connection with body signals and cues.\n\nRecognizing Patterns of Emotional Eating:\nDifferentiating between occasional comfort eating and problematic patterns.\nSuggesting additional coping tools beyond food.\n\nSigns of Eating Disorders:\nIntense dissatisfaction with body image.\nIncreased isolation and anxiety around food.\nPreoccupation with ingredients, calories, or cooking without personal consumption.\nPresence of depression, rigid thinking, and elevated suicide risk.\nAcknowledgment...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mYmWpcI13YljANPaztqyuDIJEH-3i2w9MgtV96qtZRo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzNjc3LzE2NjE4/NzkzODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}