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Midday with Dan Rodricks

Body Image and Weight Bias

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The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

A conversation about weight bias, personal struggles with body image, and what it costs Americans in self-esteem and in dollars. Our guests: Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity; Andrew Walen, founder and executive director of the Columbia-based Body Image Therapy Centerand the author of "Man Up To Eating Disorders"; and documentarian and fat activist Lindsey Averill, filmmaker behind the forthcoming documentary "Fatitude." Guest host Nikki Gamer