If the goal is to find the most ethical and effective strategies to achieve optimal public health, there needs to be an alternative to “obesity” and weight-focused approaches and a shift in understanding of weight stigma as a social justice issue.
Food restriction (via intentional weight loss) has detrimental effects on our physiology [...].
Higher weight is not causal to worse health outcomes. [...]
Public health needs a weight-inclusive approach. Appreciate that bodies come in all different shapes and sizes, and that fat people can be just as healthy as thin people. [...]
Don’t moralize foods (e.g., “You need to stop eating X”). Instead, promote eating for pleasure, hunger, satiety and nutrition, instead of weight. [...]
The term “obesity” is extremely stigmatizing. Instead, use terms such as “people in larger bodies.” [...]
In the classroom: [...] Consider: Who is most harmed by the use of BMI? How do racism, capitalism, and the use of BMI intersect? Use research that isn’t rooted in fatphobia. Research may be fatphobic if it uses BMI as a marker for health, does not critically assess the role of confounders such as weight stigma, weight cycling, or trauma, has a goal of working to reduce the “obesity epidemic” or regards weight as a personal or moral responsibility.
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