It is time that doctors ditch the scale-centric health care practice and focus on behaviors that have proven positive outcomes for health.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/doctors-need-to-focus-less-on-a-patients-weight/
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.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/doctors-need-to-focus-less-on-a-patients-weight/
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