Why "Eat Less, Move More" Needs More Nuance with Samantha Yardley

The Fitness Solution with Adam Berry

The notion that people who are struggling with weight need to "Eat Less and Move More" simply is not good enough.

Human Behavior has far more nuance and complexity than an over-simplistic quip that makes people feel awful about themselves. Something that, I think we can all agree on, needs to stop.

This week in the National Media, Samantha Yardley ended up in the middle of a frenzy based on an Article she wrote with the title "Why You Should Never Work With Fat People". I understand its shocking, and Samantha explains its meant to be a shocking title and would encourage anyone to read the whole article.

After Samantha was on The Daily Mail, ITV's This Morning and has had news articles written about all over the world reaching as far as Australia, I reached out to her on Social Media to see if she would be open to having a discussion about her viewpoint and why it needed more nuance and understanding. She agreed. And that is this interview.

The person I found on the other end of the phone was not the person the Media threw under the bus, however I am not denying she has said what she has said, but lets face it, we've all been wrong in the past. The only difference is you and I were not wrong on National Television.

I hope you enjoy the interview, and I hope it empowers you to have difficult conversations like this when you are around moments of Weight Stigmatisation.

Since the interview, Samantha has said she will greatly reconsider what she will say in the future, and will approach her topics with more empathy and nuance.

In the interview, Samantha cites a study which was published in the August Issue of the journal Occupational Medicine which you can read here: https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/61/4/220/1375467

I talk about a number of studies too which can be found here:

Obese women’s barriers to mammography and Pap smear: The possible role of personality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378788/

Emotional eating and food intake after sadness and joy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666313000743

Comparing work productivity in obesity and binge eating: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eat.22069

Fitness vs Fatness: https://g-se.com/uploads/blog_adjuntos/fitness_vs._fatness_on_all_cause_mortality_a_meta_analysis.pdf

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