Laura Ligos is a registered dietitian, mom & 2x cookbook author who resides in Albany, NY. She believes in a food first approach and focuses on optimizing the health and wellness of active women. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Sciences from Cornell University and went on to complete her Dietetic Internship and MBA at Dominican University. She started her own private practice & brand “The Sassy Dietitian” to help be a credible resource for those looking to improve their relationship with food and optimize overall health without restrictive diets.
In this episode we chat about:
- Debunking things on the internet and clickbait in the health and wellness space
- Navigating ‘mom culture’
- Critical thinking
- Big wellness vs. big pharma
- Raw milk and food safety
- Elitisim in big wellness
- It all comes back to stress
- Guilt and shame around diseases and medications
- Finding the halfway between alternative/functional meds + western med
- It’s the ‘we not just the me’
- Nutrition and health is not all or nothing
- MAHA movement: MAHA is diet culture and once again diet culture won
- Minerals: what are they? Why do they matter?
- And so much more!
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