Sound Bites With Melissa Joy Dobbins

Despite understanding the complexities of obesity and efforts to curb obesity, rates continue to rise. Our current approach is inadequate with a siloed and mechanistic healthcare system, polarized perspectives on body acceptance and diet culture, and a lack of knowledge or access to treatment options and improved outcomes. This two-part podcast series addresses the science and social science of obesity with a goal of changing how we see, prevent and treat obesity by helping people with obesity see their weight and weight management differently, and helping physicians and other healthcare professionals gain a more robust understanding of obesity and talk with their patients about obesity differently.   Tune in to this episode to learn about: How semiotics – the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation – can inform the obesity conversation The impact of dominant and normalized images of obesity in today’s culture The influence of Implicit and explicit values The many factors contributing to t