Not Blaming Fat People For Failed Weight Loss Isn't Enough
Weight and Healthcare · Ragen Chastain
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Show Notes
Healthcare practitioners have a long history of blaming and shaming fat patients for the failure of intentional weight loss. While fat activists and weight-neutral healthcare practitioners have been talking about this for literally decades, we are starting to hear pushback against this from, what seems at the outset, an unlikely source – the weight loss industry.
Suddenly they seem to be falling all over themselves to admit the failure of intentional weight loss.
While that seems like a step in the right direction, it’s their next step that is so dangerous and insidious.
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