Obesity

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Explore our tailored educational resources designed to empower healthcare professionals in providing patient-centered care for people living with obesity, emphasizing the crucial role of nutritional adequacy and muscle health across the weight loss journey.
Video Series
Clinical Nutrition Conversations: The Psychology of Weight

In this series of four short videos, Dr Nina Crowley and Dr Dominique R Williams discuss how to help healthcare professionals address the psychology of weight loss with their patients.

Infographic
A Guide to Communicating with Patients Living with Obesity

This guide was developed in partnership with Nina Crowley, PhD, RDN, LD, to provide knowledge and tools to effectively communicate about obesity in a manner that upholds the dignity of individuals, promotes inclusivity, respects privacy, and offers support.

Infographic
Stay Strong: Protect Muscle While Losing Weight

People losing weight with weight-loss medications, lifestyle changes, or weight-loss surgery risk losing muscle. Our bodies get energy from the food we eat, and when we eat less, our bodies can break down muscle for energy. This helpful infographic can help you maintain your muscle mass throughout your weight loss journey.

Podcast
Meaningful Motivation: Ask for Permission to Develop Goals

In this 13-minute podcast, Dr Nina Crowley and Dr Dominique R Williams discuss goal-setting techniques to support lasting lifestyle changes for individuals with obesity. They focus on meaningful goal-setting strategies that align actions with values, help patients tap into intrinsic motivation, and celebrate non-scale victories.

Course
The Benefits of Personalized Nutrition & Lifestyle Approaches in Obesity Management: Exploring the Role of Muscle Health

In this course, Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, and Nina Crowley, PhD, RDN, LDN, will describe the disease of obesity and the importance of muscle health in the context of obesity; identify the four phenotypes and examine nutrition interventions for each obesity phenotype; discuss short and long-term nutrition considerations for patients on anti-obesity medications, reframing the conversation to include muscle health; and more! Originally presented as a live webinar on 19 June 2024.