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.
The right to refuse weighing is congruent with a weight-inclusive approach that emphasizes beneficence over malfeasance, upholds a person’s right to self-determination, and reflect a social justice orientation towards combatting weight stigma in healthcare settings.
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