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

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readMar 26, 2021

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Kieran Blakey for Elemental

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

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.