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Are we what we eat?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Importance of Education in Eating Disorders

There is no individual characteristic that drives more stigma when it comes to people's interaction with doctors than living with overweight or obesity. We need education as well, and that's why I was saying if knowing about what you eat was more entrenched within the national curriculum. There must be a component of knowledge, because as we've discussed, those messages that tend to be embedded are in our subconscious somewhere. So how much of this is about providing that information? Or is it just as simple as saying calories in, keep them at a certain level?

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