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Intentional Weight Loss and Lottery Logic
You can’t win if you don’t play.
That’s what the PowerBall ad said. I could pay $2 for a ticket and possibly win a $20 million jackpot. Of course, I h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Reader Question: What’s With the New Child Growth Charts?
I got the following question from reader Naomi
“Thanks for the information on the CDC growth charts. I wonder if you could talk about how to understan…
1 year, 7 months ago
New Study Supports Weight-Neutral Health
Today we’re going to talk about a new study called whose goal was to assess the “relationship of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and Body Mass Index …
1 year, 7 months ago
We Must Stop Blaming Higher-Weight Bodies for Healthcare's Failures
There are many ways that weight stigma occurs in healthcare. One that is harmful on multiple levels happens when higher-weight people are blamed for …
1 year, 7 months ago
What Is Clinical Obesity?
I’ve now had eleven different doctors ask me about this article, so let’s talk about it! Here is one of the emails:
“I’m an MD and I just read this ar…
1 year, 7 months ago
How NOT to handle a patient weigh-in (and what to do instead)
Regular readers may know that while speaking and writing are my primary work, I’m also a Board Certified Patient Advocate and I sometimes work direct…
1 year, 8 months ago
A Diet By Any Other Name
I received the following question from reader Jin,
I’m a pharmacist and one of the things I’ve learned from following you over the years is the import…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Problem With People-First Language for Higher-Weight People
I received the following question from reader Alina:
I’m a family med doctor and I’ve started seeing lots of publications, even research, using the te…
1 year, 8 months ago
How Medical Research Fails Higher-Weight Patients
There are many aspects of weight stigma within the healthcare system that harm higher-weight people. There is an issue that isn't often discussed tha…
1 year, 8 months ago
More Problems With Obesity First Medicine - Part 2
In part 1 we discussed a New York Times article about so-called “Ob*sity First Medicine” (OFM) which suggests that higher weight people with health i…
1 year, 8 months ago