# Food Addiction, Obesity & the Lies We Tell Ourselves | Mendel Krashunsky Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/meaningful-people-272973/food-addiction-obesity-the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-mendel-krashunsky Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/meaningful-people-272973/food-addiction-obesity-the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-mendel-krashunsky.md Podcast: [Meaningful People](https://stenobird.com/podcast/meaningful-people-272973) Published: 2026-08-08T11:45:00+00:00 Episode link: https://meaningfulpeoplepodcast.libsyn.com/food-addiction-obesity-the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-mendel-krashunsky Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/meaningfulpeoplepodcast/MPP_x_Mendel_FULL_PODCAST_AUDIO.mp3?dest-id=1900811 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/meaningful-people-272973/episodes/food-addiction-obesity-the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-mendel-krashunsky Duration seconds: 3539 ## Resource Mendel Krashunsky is the founder of the Frum Health Club, a worldwide movement pushing Yidden to finally take their health seriously. He opens up about losing his father, an oligarch who lived a life of total luxury, to a preventable illness at just 38 years old, and how the grief sent Mendel into his own spiral of emotional eating that left him 70 pounds overweight and battling GERD before he'd even turned 20. From there, Mendel and Nachi dig into why health gets treated as optional in frum life, even though it's a mitzvah straight from the Torah, covering ultra-processed food, GLP-1s like Ozempic, how to talk to kids about it, and the viral 10,000-steps-a-day challenge that's grown into a global movement with tens of thousands of followers. It's a raw, practical conversation about food, faith, and why taking care of your body isn't a contradiction to Yiddishkeit, it's part of it. Join the Frum Health Club 30-Day Step Challenge! πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈ Walk 10,000 steps a day (Shabbos and Yom Tov excluded.) πŸ† Chance to win a Rolex worth $8,000 OR πŸ’΅ $8,000 cash πŸ’΅ Daily chance to win $100 πŸ’° Just $39 to join Sign up: https://wa.link/0w2nb2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frumhealthclub This episode is sponsored by: β–Ί PZ Deals Download the app and never pay full price again! https://app.pz.deals/install/mpp _________________ β–Ί Colel Chabad Pushka App The easiest way to give Tzedaka https://pushkapp.cc/meaningful _________________ β–Ί KTYT – Win $1,000,000 for Your Shul Take on a Kabbalah to stay quiet during a specific part of davening, and you're entered to win $1,000,000 for the shul, yeshiva, mikvah, or Torah project of your choice. Head to KTYT.org, make your Kabbalah, and pick which part of davening you're committing to. https://ktyt.org/en/mpPOD _________________ β–Ί Shopify Guru Sto… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/meaningful-people-272973/episodes/food-addiction-obesity-the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-mendel-krashunsky/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/meaningful-people-272973/food-addiction-obesity-the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-mendel-krashunsky.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.