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Sep 2022
1h 32m

The Psychology Behind Food Addiction & C...

Lewis Howes
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Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. is an expert in the psychology of eating. She is President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the founder of the worldwide Bright Line Eating movement. 
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