56 min
Episode 330: Joan Denizot Low Carb MD Podcast
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- Medicine
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Joan Denizot is an inspiring speaker and inclusive business consultant who empowers organizations to embrace diversity, foster inclusivity, and drive positive change. She is the founder of Zize Bikes—a company that creates bikes that transcend conventional limits and empower individuals of diverse body sizes—and is also an author. Her most recent book, Big Body Business, redefines business success beyond profits, advocating inclusivity, comfort, and transformation.
In this episode, Tro and Joan talk about weight stigmatization and its negative impacts, why Joan founded Zize Bikes, what goes into engineering a bike that is comfortable to use for an obese person, small things that medical offices and other businesses can do to better accommodate overweight patients/customers, terminology and labels that are appropriate terms for referring to overweight people, the pros and cons of the body positivity movement, psychological hardships that overweight people are prone to as a result of their size, and why
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Joan Denizot:
Big Body Business (Book) Zize Bikes Website Body Ready Facebook Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App
Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.
Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.
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Google
Learn more
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Joan Denizot is an inspiring speaker and inclusive business consultant who empowers organizations to embrace diversity, foster inclusivity, and drive positive change. She is the founder of Zize Bikes—a company that creates bikes that transcend conventional limits and empower individuals of diverse body sizes—and is also an author. Her most recent book, Big Body Business, redefines business success beyond profits, advocating inclusivity, comfort, and transformation.
In this episode, Tro and Joan talk about weight stigmatization and its negative impacts, why Joan founded Zize Bikes, what goes into engineering a bike that is comfortable to use for an obese person, small things that medical offices and other businesses can do to better accommodate overweight patients/customers, terminology and labels that are appropriate terms for referring to overweight people, the pros and cons of the body positivity movement, psychological hardships that overweight people are prone to as a result of their size, and why
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Joan Denizot:
Big Body Business (Book) Zize Bikes Website Body Ready Facebook Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App
Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.
Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.
Apple
Google
Learn more
56 min