FILMED INTERVIEW | ELIZABETH CAPPS, RDN

Being a Health at Every Size informed practitioner is incredibly important. Really, I feel that this should follow into the medical community. I know that here at Mental Health Collective, everyone here is health at every size informed. What it is is taking into consideration that health can come at any size, and that’s incredibly important, especially in our diet culture focused world. Where thin is this idea of health, it’s really not true. And the research actually shows that that’s not true. That you can be in a larger body and be incredibly healthy, and you can even be in a smaller body and have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, things like that. So really following what that evidence-based material is and following that research, it shows that regardless of your body size, regardless of your body type, you can be a healthy individual. And what that focuses on is your behaviors as well as your mental health. And so focusing on, again, that mind body connection and making sure that we’re incorporating that in what we do here.