The Nuance

Our Obsession With Body Size Is a Threat to Public Health

Anti-fat bias and weight-loss fixation — including among doctors — is a problem that must be remedied

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Elemental

5 min readMar 26, 2021

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The study’s findings were surprising, even to its organizers.

Markham Heid

Written by Markham Heid

Writer for

Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.

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