Weight and Healthcare

I received a request to write about an article titled “Graphic and grisly beverage warning labels stressing sugar content dangers could curb ob*sity*, study finds.”

The study found no such thing.

Our current medical view of weight and health is deeply muddied by weight loss industry involvement. I created this list of questions as a guide to interrogation. It can be used by or with healthcare…

I received this question from reader Jeremy: “I’m in healthcare and I was recently in a training that was talking about O-word as a chronic disease (eye-roll) and then they used the term lifelong rel…

I've written previously about the serious issues with the field of so-called “ob*sity* medicine.” Today I’d like to talk about what could be. What if there was a field of medicine dedicated to provid…

Thanks to everyone who sent me this article from Medical News Today and asked me to write about it! I’ll discuss the study, but I’m also going talk about the article because it’s a great demonstratio…

Healthcare practitioners have a long history of blaming and shaming fat patients for the failure of intentional weight loss. While fat activists and weight-neutral healthcare practitioners have been …

I have permission to share the story of a patient I advocate for. She is fat and has Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Her latest A1C test was 7.1%. This is .1% over her goal and up from her previous test. Her …

I received the following question from reader Ximena: “I appreciate how you always look to find out how much money different doctors have taken from pharmaceutical companies but I’m wondering, is the…

This series is part of the work I did with WIND (Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics) to create a comprehensive response to the disastrous American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines for hig…

Embroiled in lawsuits and investigations across multiple countries about the dangerous side effects of their weight loss drug Wegovy (which I interrupted writing about to write about this,) Novo Nord…

I was recently asked for an interview by a reporter who was writing about Novo Nordisk’s new weight loss drug.

I sent a long answer via email and then we did a 30 minute phone call. The quote that app…

As a fat patient who often exercises my right of informed refusal when it comes to recommendations of weight loss, I have had to correct my chart multiple times when the healthcare provider who recom…

This series is part of the work I’m doing with Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics (WIND) to create a comprehensive response to the disastrous American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines for…

I received this question from an anonymous reader who is an RN, and it’s a question I’ve received in various shapes and forms from a number of providers:

I feel like I’m surrounded by weight stigma al…

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I’ve previously written a series about fat pe…

Noom has announced the start of Noom Med, a division focused on selling diet drugs. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Weight Watchers just did the exact same thing. Let's talk about this.

In part 1 we started discussing the study “Working toward eradicating weight stigma by combating pathologization: A qualitative pilot study using direct contact and narrative medicine” by Rachel Fox,…

I was thrilled to learn of a study by Rachel Fox, Kelly Park, Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp, and Anne T. Vo called “Working toward eradicating weight stigma by combating pathologization: A qualitative pilot…

There is about a century of research showing that the most common outcome will be that people lose weight short-term and then regain it long-term as their bodies adjust to food restriction and change…

Two columns in the New York Times by "The Ethicist" (one where someone wants to comment on their friend's weight and behaviors and another where someone is concerned about the safety of weight loss d…