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As a parent in particular, you have to be of an ad mindset, not delete.

A deprivation mindset will lead to more problems than an ad.

So asking particularly an adolescent not to do something,

rarely has that intended effect.

In my experience, I don't know about you all, but like say,

don't do this is sort of like highlights that they should be doing it.

But instead you add, okay? So that they should be doing it, but instead

you add. Okay. So if they are, you know, making food choices that are not very good for their

health, have them add in other things that would compete with it that are more balanced.

Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman, and today is a different kind of episode because it's a live conversation

that we had at the Mount Sinai Parenting Center about disordered eating and eating disorders.

And we even kept in the Q&A because the questions that came up after our conversation were exactly the

questions that listeners like you are having. I learned so much during our conversation about

disordered eating and eating disorders. I just want to get it right to you. I'm just going to

briefly let everybody know that Dr. Hillibrand is a clinical psychologist

and director of both the Center for Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders and the Hildon

Preston Davis Living Laboratory at the Icon School of Medicine and Mount Sinai.

He's an incredible resource and we're so lucky to be able to speak with him today.

I want to ask some really basic questions and hopefully I think they're on the minds of parents in general. I think we're certainly

an audience that is looking throughout the lifespan to think about how to support our kids to have healthy eating

habits and how to prevent disordered eating and eating disorders. So first I just want to clarify

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