December 28, 2024 — To make a list of really hard problems in health and obesity care is easy. It is a daunting list. Inequities, access to care, explosive growth in costs, and byzantine payment systems are just a few of the issues that come to mind. But a new paper in the Journal of General Internal Medicine suggests […]
October 14, 2024 — Are we on the way to ending weight stigma or is it more stubbornly persistent than we might imagine? We found a clue to the persistence of bias in health professionals in a new commentary published by the Washington Post. From his perch at the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Preston Lee writes: “Like many doctors, […]
April 29, 2024 — What does it take to change the explicit and implicit bias that people have about others and themselves based solely upon body weight or fatness? New research tells us that we should pay attention to cognitive dissonance. In other words, we should be asking, does our weight bias reflect our beliefs? Or is there a […]
