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What To Do When Weight Stigma Makes You Want To Avoid The Doctor
Recently during Q&A after a talk about how to deal with weight stigma at the doctor’s office, one of the participants asked if I had any ideas for wh…
3 years, 1 month ago
Letter To Med Students Doing a Weight-Stigma Capstone – Guest Post by Rachel Fox
I don’t do a lot of guest posts here, but as I was reading Rachel Fox’s excellent piece “An Open Letter to the Well-Intentioned Medical Students Who …
3 years, 1 month ago
Eating Disorders Support ChatBot Promotes Weight Loss
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Recently I was made aware …
3 years, 1 month ago
Wegovy’s So-Called “Long-Term” Study
Today we are breaking down Novo Nordisk's 2-year study of their weight loss drug, Wegovy. I want to thank Deb Burgard for her help with this piece. S…
3 years, 1 month ago
Help the US Preventive Services Task Force Avoid Harming People and Wasting Money
The public comment period has opened for the US Preventative Services Task Force’s massively ill-advised draft research plan “Weight Loss to Prevent …
3 years, 1 month ago
Study Misleads About Efficacy of Weight Loss Interventions in Children
Today I’m looking into “New insights about how to make an intervention in children and adolescents with metabolic syndrome: diet, exercise vs. change…
3 years, 2 months ago
Goodbye To Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig has announced that they are shutting down. While I’m deeply sorry for the stress and unemployment it will cause for the employees who rea…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Problem With “Classes” of “Obesity"
The entire idea of “ob*sity”* is problematic. It’s a made-up concept to pathologize bodies based on shared size rather than shared symptomology. It u…
3 years, 2 months ago
Patient Quick Guide To Talking About Weight with Healthcare Providers
A very common issue for higher-weight people who are trying to access healthcare is healthcare providers (HCPs) who want to focus on weight and weigh…
3 years, 2 months ago
Four Ways To Spot a Fake Anti-Weight-Stigma Event
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One of the ways that the d…
3 years, 2 months ago