Weight Neutral Vs. Weight Centric Healthcare; Two Dietitians, Two Approaches, with Dietitian Casey Lewandowski
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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains a lot of diet and body composition talk.  If this is at all triggering for you, please take care of yourself and go to another episode. From Johns Hopkins University, Weight-centric thinking is the conventional–and arguably outdated–approach to health that suggests weight and weight management (primarily weight loss) are the primary […]
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