Speaking Of Hungry

Still convinced that your weight is the problem?  A cancer diagnosis several years ago set Maggie out to dig deep into the research and evidence behind weight, nutrition, and health.  Although she is a board-certified physician, she admits that most doctors in medical school get a tiny blip of nutrition education so she needed to do the research herself.  What she found was everything she thought to be true about health, weight, and nutrition was inaccurate and misconstrued by diet culture. She started to question everything she held to be true about weight and health both personally and the way she practiced professionally. In this episode we discuss: The lack of training medical doctors have in nutrition yet weight loss is a widespread recommendation for many health conditions. Other health-promoting behaviors we should be hearing about that have nothing to do with weight. Systems of oppression in healthcare that lead people in a larger body to receive a different level of care compared to those in a small