Eating Disorders - Why Do We Rely on Weight?

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For many people with eating disorders, those circles are right on top of each other. Ren this belief that weight loss is a simple sort of endeavor of calories in versus calories out. We really have been sort of conditioned to recognize this one thing. And when that's combined with all the stuff that we know about dieting and weight loss, it just totally wrong.

Fat people have them too! This week, special guest Erin Harrop tells us about one of America's most under-diagnosed and misunderstood problems. Along the way we talk about elbow bumps, Twitter etiquette and '90s sweatpants. Our content warnings are becoming increasingly threatening.

Here's Erin's faculty page and a bunch of her research!

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