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LEXI CROUCH
Clinical nutritionist and eating disorder advocate
AFTER AN EATING DISORDER CONSUMED MUCH OF HER CHILDHOOD, CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST AND EATING DISORDER ADVOCATE LEXI CROUCH HAS DEDICATED HER LIFE TO ENCOURAGING NUTRITION-LED, POSITIVE BODY IMAGE AND PROVIDING THE INSIGHT THAT WAS MISSING IN HER OWN RECOVERY.
Growing up, I was always interested in nutrition and health – even as a young child. I would spend a lot of time reading nutrition articles and spending my pocket money on health magazines. It was an interesting time growing up in the 1990s with so many well-known diet programs; we thought they represented ideal health at the time but they didn’t provide much balance or education on the nutritional element. I developed an eating disorder at a young age, which went on to take up a lot of my childhood and early adult years. Coming from my own battle, I undertook studies at Endeavour College, wanting to know what nutrition could do for the mind and body at a deeper
