Weight and Healthcare
Examining weight science, weight stigma, and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about best healthcare practices and public health for higher weight people.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 223
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Novo Nordisk Gets Caught In Shady Marketing Practices - Part 2
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In Part 1 we talked about how Novo Nordisk got suspended from The Associatio…
Novo Nordisk (Finally) Faces Some Consequences for Their Deceptive Marketing Tactics - Part 1
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Reader Question - Sleep Apnea and Weight
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Reader Marcel sent me the following question:
I just got diagnosed…
Study Shows Lack of Link Between High BMI and COVID Deaths
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In the early days of the pandemic studies were rushed out and highlighted in…
Providing X-Rays, MRIs and CT Scans to Higher-Weight Patients
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EDIT 7/4/25: I’m excited to say that a project I’ve been working on is now l…
Weight Watchers Expands Their Harmful Model - Adding Prescription Drugs
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I’ve been getting a lot of requests to write about Weight Watcher…
Study Looks At Ways To Protect Ourselves from Weight Stigma
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I write and talk a lot about weight stigma and its negative impac…
The Harm of Weight Stigma
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I’ve written before about weight stigma in healthcare practice, and I’m curr…
The Truth About The Obesity Action Coalition
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The Ob*sity* Action Coalition (OAC) claims to be a non-profit adv…
Reader Question: Why do they say that "obesity" is a chronic disease like asthma and type 2 diabetes?
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Reader Eliah sent me the following email:
I’ve seen you write abou…
A New HAES™ Friendly Disordered Eating, Exercise and Body Image Screening Tool
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Sam Sessamen is someone I’ve had the o…
Fighting BMI-Based Denials Part 3 - Patient Experience
This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing!In part one of this series we looked at the phenomenon of BMI-based treatmen…
Options to Deal With BMI-Based Healthcare Denials - Part 2
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In part one we talked about the issues with BMI-based denials. Today we’ll talk about your options if you are facing a BMI-based healthcare denial. Part three will be the story of someone …
BMI Limits - Healthcare Held Hostage For A Weight Loss Ransom - Part 1
One of the ways that weight stigma harms fat people is through Body Mass Index BMI (and other weight-based) limits. BMI is a ratio of weight and height, and its use is deeply problematic in multiple …
The Validation and Frustration of Stunkard et al.
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Stunkard et al.’s 1959 study “The Results of Treatment for Ob*sity: A Review…
When Doctors' Education Is The Best That Pharma Money Can Buy- Part 2
In part 1 I talked about information that was brought to me by two senior residents who wanted people to know that they are being invited to “educational summits” that are actually being run by docto…
When Doctors' Education Is Really Pharmaceutical Industry Marketing - Part 1
In discussing weight stigma and diet culture in medicine in general and, recently, the new AAP guidelines that recommend “intensive” weight loss attempts to toddlers, a common question I get is - How…
Asking for Accommodations as a Higher-Weight Person - Part 2
In Part 1 we talked about some general information about asking for accommodations as a higher-weight person. To get more insight into the legalities of this, I reached out to the brilliant folks at …
Asking for Accommodations as a Higher-Weight Person Part 1
While places that serve the public (from transportation, to food service, to entertainment and especially healthcare) should be set up to accommodate everyone in the public, unfortunately, that is no…
Things to Stop Saying/Doing To Fat Patients At The Start Of Their Appointments
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Higher-weight patients can face tremendous weight stigma, including intrinsi…