An interview with Dr. Renee Rogers and Dr. Michael Hosking.

If you don't know the answer to something, it's okay to say you don't know the answer to something and that you'll look into it. And I think that's a really important space for building trust with your patients.

Dr. Renee Rogers

I would say to the boots on the ground fitness professional, if they could learn to shed their pre-existing biases and their thinking about why people exercise, why someone might be coming to the gym, and especially why a person in a larger body, a person who might be obese might be coming to the gym, if they can learn to understand that fitness is a culture with certain shared beliefs, practices, recognize what those are, and learn to see the patient, the person coming in as as a whole human being…

Dr. Michael Hosking

Convening a group of experts for obesity medications in fitness  
The role of lifestyle with the use of obesity medications              
Guiding the health & fitness industry into a new era
Building trusted, collaborative comprehensive care networks
Putting the patient with obesity first
Building trust with providers and patients
Recognizing the importance of lifestyle change
Leading with science
Health benefits of exercise independent of weight loss
Addressing weight bias and stigma in the health & fitness sector
Calls to action to health & fitness professionals

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