Weight and Healthcare

Wow, did a lot of you write to me about this one. Someone wrote in to the New York Times column “The Ethicist” to ask if they should “intervene” because their friend, who specifically asked them not …

I often get asked by practitioners what they can do to become better providers and advocates for their higher-weight clients. I conceptualize this as a four-step progression.

In Part 1 I talked about Beachbody’s supposed rebrand to “Bodi” to focus on health. I signed up for the 14-day free trial to check it out myself. I was holding out hope that perhaps they really were …

I recently got a question from reader Marisol asking “I have food and bee allergies, so I carry epipens. I just came across your writing about vaccine needles and it made me wonder about the needle o…

I’ve been contacted by a number of people wanting to know if I think that Beachbody’s rebrand to “BODi” really represents a commitment to weight-neutral fitness. I was hopeful at the start but, unfor…

A tweet from a PhD Psychologist was brought to my attention and gives us a perfect example of what not to do if you don't want to harm fat people.

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 what to do when they were so sick of experiencing fa…

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 Want to Do a Capstone Project on Weight Stigma and…

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Recently I was made aware of something that was happening with the National …

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. She is quoted and was kind enough to review and giv…

The public comment period has opened for the US Preventative Services Task Force’s massively ill-advised draft research plan “Weight Loss to Prevent Ob*sity*-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults…

Today I’m looking into “New insights about how to make an intervention in children and adolescents with metabolic syndrome: diet, exercise vs. changes in body composition. A systematic review of RCT …

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 really believed they were helping people (because Jen…

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 uses Body Mass Index (BMI) which is a math equation…

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 weight loss. Today I’ll give some tips that I’ve learne…

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One of the ways that the diet industry is trying to squash the weight-neutra…

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In my work around weight science and healthcare, I see a lot of confusion ab…

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In part 1 we talked about a request that has been submitted for the World He…

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In part 1 we talked about a request that has been submitted for the World He…

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There are a number of different ways that bias can impact the healthcare tha…