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Lauren Westbrook, RD, CDN

Associate Reviewer, Behavioral & Eating Disorder-Informed Care

RD since 2020, iaedp-supervised since 2022

ORCID: 0009-0001-2845-7763

About Lauren Westbrook

Lauren Westbrook is the Associate Reviewer for behavioral and eating-disorder-informed coverage at Clinical Nutrition Report. She is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Dietitian Nutritionist (CDN) in New York, with iaedp supervision and over five years of outpatient ED clinical experience.

Before joining the publication in October 2025, Lauren served as an outpatient dietitian at a multidisciplinary eating disorder clinic in New York City, working with patients across restrictive, binge, and ARFID presentations. She is trained in HAES (Health at Every Size) principles and intuitive eating framework.

At Clinical Nutrition Report, Lauren is the gating reviewer for any article that touches disordered eating patterns, weight cycling history, or population groups with elevated ED risk. She authored the site’s eating disorder resource page, ED-aware tracking guide, and our orthorexia explainer.

Credentials in detail

Editorial focus

Lauren’s role is both authorial and gatekeeping. Every article on the site that mentions calorie tracking, weight loss, or body composition is reviewed by Lauren for language and framing that does not promote disordered patterns. She has rejected or revised approximately 30% of submissions from contributors on these grounds since joining the publication.

Conflicts of interest

Lauren has no financial relationships with weight loss programs, calorie tracking app companies, or pharmaceutical manufacturers. She is openly critical of the engagement-loop design in several popular tracking apps and recuses herself from reviews where she has expressed strong public criticism.

Recent Work

Articles

App Reviews

  • Noom · Jan 7, 2026

Comparisons