Imagine visiting the doctor for the common cold and being told to lose weight. Or, the gown you're asked to wear for an outpatient medical test is too small. Whether blatant or subtle, fat shaming by a health care provider is all too real for some patients. And it can result in a variety of negative psychological and behavioral health effects.
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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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