This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! As someone who was personally recommended dieting by doctors WHILE I was recovering from an eating disorder and for years after, I first learned about this subject from personal experience. At the time I was still fully enmeshed in diet culture so I didn’t even question it. Once I had extricated myself from that mentality I realized how many times healthcare practitioners had recommended the behaviors that I had been in eating disorder treatment to stop. The most succinctly I’ve heard this put was by the brilliant Deb Burgard who says “we diagnose and treat in thin people what we prescribe to fat* people.”
Hey Ragen, You mentioned that you are really fond of Deb's work. Is there somewhere that you subscribe to her or soak in more of her goodness outside of the books she has contributed to? Where do you get your Deb wisdom goodness from? Thanks! Vinny - Fierce Fatty
Hey Ragen, You mentioned that you are really fond of Deb's work. Is there somewhere that you subscribe to her or soak in more of her goodness outside of the books she has contributed to? Where do you get your Deb wisdom goodness from? Thanks! Vinny - Fierce Fatty