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Episode 18: How These Surprising Causes of Weight Gain Could Be Affecting All Of Us

ByAcademy of Culinary Nutrition Last updated onMay 5, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Obesity rates have tripled since 1975 and millions of adults and children struggle with maintaining a healthy weight. Everyone wants to know the tricks to losing weight permanently and the answer doesn’t lie in a quick-fix diet regime. Our 18th episode of the Today Is The Day Podcast, “How These Surprising Causes of Weight Gain Could Be Affecting All Of Us”, is now available on your favourite podcast platforms.

Today is the day we’re uncovering the potential barriers to weight loss, the less obvious reasons weight management is becoming increasingly challenging, and the real secret to weight loss.

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Covered In This Episode

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • What calories are and how they are metabolized differently
  • Whether eating fat makes us fat
  • The different metabolic types and how they influence weight loss
  • The role genetics play in weight gain and loss
  • What are Obesogens, and why they are so important to a healthy weight
  • How we can address weight loss at the root
  • Ways the microbiome, hormones, and stress affect weight
  • How to balance hormones and manage weight for life

Additional Resources Mentioned In The Episode

  • Obesogens: Why Your Cookware, Car and Water Bottle are Making You Fat
  • Before and After Photos of My Beach Body
  • 14 Best Foods for Digestion
  • 20 Best Hormone Balancing Foods
  • How to Choose Healthy Cooking Oils
  • How Much of Our Health Can We Blame on Genetics?
  • The Dutch Famine and Its Long Term Consequences for Health
  • 13 Ingredients to Avoid in Personal Care Products
  • Whatsonmyfood.org
  • The Gut Microbiome Profile in Obesity: A Systematic Review
  • Fermented Foods We Can’t Live Without
  • Cooking With The Clean 15
  • 8 Packaged Staple Foods To Easily Make From Scratch
  • 20 Best Meatless Monday Recipes
  • 25 Best 30-Minute Meals
  • 26 Healthy Instant Pot Recipes

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