#207: Doctors Without Diet Culture with Louise Metz, Health At Every Size Physician
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Medical doctor and Health At Every Size advocate Louise Metz joins us to discuss why weight management has no place in evidence-based medicine, how our current medical system can get in the way of providing compassionate care, why it’s actually not necessary for doctors to weigh their patients, how physicians can shift their practice to be more weight-inclusive, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about dealing with digestive symptoms.
Louise Metz is an Internal Medicine Physician who has expertise in the medical management of eating disorders and gender-related health care. She is the owner and founder of Mosaic Comprehensive Care, a medical practice in Chapel Hill, NC offering primary care and specialty care that is inclusive and affirming of all bodies. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Biology and Women’s Studies at Duke University, she attended medical school at the University of North Carolina. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. She has previously held academic positions at NYU’s Bellevue Hospital and Duke University, and has published research on heart disease in women. She created Mosaic using a unique model of individualized and collaborative care with a focus on body diversity and complexities of health. She is passionate about providing weight-inclusive medical care, and committed to helping to change the paradigm surrounding the way we address weight and health. Find her online at MosaicCareNC.com.
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| 0:04.6 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim a life at Stole From You, |
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| 0:15.6 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, |
| 0:20.2 | body liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, |
| 0:25.1 | and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:29.6 | and author of the forthcoming book Anti-Diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, |
| 0:35.0 | and happiness through intuitive eating, which is available for pre-order now. Join me here every |
| 0:40.3 | week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with |
| 0:44.7 | food and their bodies. And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight |
| 0:49.9 | and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener |
| 0:54.4 | discretion is advised. |
| 0:56.4 | Hey there, welcome to episode 207 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, |
| 1:25.9 | and today I'm talking with medical doctor and health at every size advocate Louise Metz. |
| 1:30.5 | It's always so exciting to talk to a medical doctor who specializes in health at every size, |
| 1:34.1 | because they are so sadly few at this point, but Louise is doing amazing work, and we talk about |
| 1:39.6 | why weight management has no place in evidence-based healthcare. How our current medical system can |
| 1:45.1 | get in the way of providing compassionate care? Why it's actually not necessary for doctors to weigh |
| 1:50.4 | their patients? How physicians can shift their practice to be more weight-inclusive? And so much more, |
| 1:56.2 | it's a great conversation. I really love this one, and I can't wait to share it with you in just |
| 2:00.4 | a little bit. But first, I'll answer this week's listener question, and just a heads up that this |
| 2:05.0 | one contains some explicit talk about poop. So if you're eating while listening to this and don't |
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