Weight Bias: Moving from Loud to Quiet

Nancy Tran 3/30/2210:50 AM

Weight bias is a moving target. It is moving from a shout to a quiet murmur, from explicit shaming to implicit insults. In 2015, a peer-reviewed medical journal would publish advice to tell patients bluntly that obesity is their fault. With an AJM editorial then, Robert Doroghazi wrote that he thought it best to confront patients, telling them:

“It’s not OK. Obesity is bad. You are overweight because you eat too much. You also need to exercise more.”

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