Podcasts · Thriving Minds with Alberto Zandi

World Renowned Food Psychologist: 6 Habits To Stop Food Controlling Your Life - Professor Jane Ogden

21 May 2026 · 1 h 04 min · S1 E73

This week Alberto sat down with Professor Jane Ogden, Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey and one of the leading voices on eating behaviour, food psychology, body image, dieting, and the relationship between the mind and body.

In this conversation, Professor Ogden explains why our relationship with food is never just about food. She explores how childhood, family scripts, emotional hunger, body image, dieting culture, social media, stress, and the people around us can shape the way we eat and how we feel about ourselves. She also explains why food can become a problem when it starts taking up too much space in your mind, and why trying too hard to be healthy can sometimes become unhealthy.

You will learn

• Why food can become emotionally loaded and take up too much space in your mind

• How to tell when your relationship with food may be becoming unhealthy

• Why emotional hunger and physical hunger can be difficult to separate

• How childhood, parents, reward, punishment, and family habits shape your eating behaviour

• Why dieting, cheat meals, food rules, and cutting out food groups can create guilt, shame, and obsession

• How to build a healthier, kinder, and more sustainable relationship with food with 6 tools

Follow Professor Ogden:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-ogden-3328504b/

Get Professor's Ogden Book, How to Eat Well at Every Age: https://amzn.to/4fixJSP

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