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Weight Stigmatization is both a social injustice and a public health issue. If you are a health care provider focused on changing a patient's weight, please click the link in each of the posts below to learn that what you think you know about weight science is probably not true, how detrimental fat-shaming can be to a person's physical and emotional health, and how you can acknowledge and overcome your own internal weight bias and stigmatizing behavior.

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June 24, 2024

Physicians and other health care professionals are among the greatest perpetrators of weight bias.

https://www.aamc.org/news/shame-us-shaming-people-excess-weight

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