Fatphobia in the Age of Modern
Medicine and Failures to Address
the Obesity Crisis
PRN RN rtd“For 60 years, we’ve
approached the obesity
epidemic like a fad dieter:
If we just try the exact
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we'll get a different result.”
--Michael Hobbes, Everything You Know
About Obesity is Wrong“The ways doctors have handled heavy
patients for the past half century have been
counterproductive at best, neglectful at
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Major Problems
1. Physicians follow social norms, disdain for fat
people
2. Ignored mountains of evidence that diets do
not work
3. Belief that Weight = Health