Every Body | Reclaiming Body Talk

Today's guest, Traci Mann, a professor of social and health psychology and the principal investigator of the Health and Eating Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, sheds light on the truth about self-control and dieting.  She talks about the relationship between dieting and weight gain with the aim to identify and understand the behaviors related to eating and a person’s body image. Traci also shares her work at the Eating Lab and how her team studies the mindsets people have about dieting and its effects.     “Weight gain really needs to be thought of, not as an unfortunate screw up after dieting, but it should be looked at as an expected result of dieting.” - Traci Mann      This Week on the Every Body Podcast:  What brought Traci to focus on eating for her life’s work  Detrimental effects of dieting and its inevitable consequences  How your body responds to keep you in a certain weight range  How historical famines changed people’s metabolism to survive  Things that change and problems that occur wh