WN4DC Symposium

Supporting ALL BODIES in diabetes care

11 Tools for Professionals Using Weight Neutral Diabetes Care

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
09 February, 2021
11 Tools for Professionals Using Weight Neutral Diabetes Care Looking for some resources to make it easier to talk about weight neutral diabetes care? While this isn't an exhaustive list, these eleven will get you started! Not sure where to start your journey? Consider the book Diabetes...

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​Struggling to find and recommend weight neutral resources to your clients?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
09 February, 2021
Struggling to find and recommend weight neutral resources to your clients? When a client expresses thoughts or behaviors around disordered eating, how do you best support and connect them with resources to meet their needs? Books and other activities help clients stay engaged between...

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​What do you do when food and trauma are connected in your clients?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
09 February, 2021
What do you do when food and trauma are connected in your clients? With trauma being so prevalent, as a healthcare practitioner, it can feel overwhelming to try to understand how to manage the ways trauma shows up in interactions, especially when trauma and food are connected. But you can...

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How are health inequity and fat stigma experienced?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
How are health inequity and fat stigma experienced? Do you wish you understood how health inequity is connected to fat stigma so you can prevent patient interactions from becoming uncomfortable, even icky? Maybe you want to be able to spot all the ways fat patients are treated as less...

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Do you know how to help clients who have experienced trauma?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
Do you know how to help clients who have experienced trauma? It’s hard to know how to help clients who have or are dealing with trauma. One way to move forward is to understand what Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are and why they’re relevant to clients with diabetes. Trauma is...

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Do you know weight-biased research when you see it?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
Do you know weight-biased research when you see it? How does weight stigma and bias enter the research process? Not only is it important to know the answers to that question, but it’s also important to be able to identify studies whose findings might have been affected by weight stigma, as...

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How does inequality and inequity affect our food system?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
How does inequality and inequity affect our food system? You want to help your clients effectively reduce the inequity they face to help them improve access to healthy food, but that’s challenging if you don’t know what inequalities and inequities lie below the surface of our food...

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​How does the pathophysiology of diabetes look through a HAES lens?

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
How does the pathophysiology of diabetes look through a HAES lens? Wish you could attend a conference that explains how behaviors actually impact health and improve diabetes outcomes without focusing on restriction or dieting. Well, you can! Many professionals are confused on how Health at...

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​What you need to know about GLP-1 agonists in weight-neutral diabetes care

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
What you need to know about GLP-1 agonists in weight-neutral diabetes care Have you been looking for a conference that actually explains which diabetes medications are weight neutral medications, and helps you understand how to supports clients’ use of GLP-1 agonists given that they’re often...

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​Why it’s worth learning how to craft weight-neutral content

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Inclusive Diabetes Care
08 February, 2021
Why it’s worth learning how to craft weight-neutral content How can you make your communications weight neutral, while still being evidence-based? If you write about diabetes care, whether for patient education materials, hospital blogs or newsletters or for your OWN blog or newsletter? It’s...

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ABOUT

The WN4DC Symposium mission is to provide excellence in diabetes education. We support dietitians, nutritionists, health coaches, diabetes care, and educators specialist, nurses by providing CPE from The Commission of Dietetic Registration, CDR.

All health professionals who are interested in a weight-neutral approach will find evidence-based, dynamic, interactive learning programs offered by experts in the field without having to travel.

The WN4DC Symposium aims to advance the understanding of eating disorders and weight stigma while deepening fundamental patient-centered counseling skills for professionals in diabetes care.