This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! Our current medical view of weight and health is deeply muddied by weight loss industry involvement. I created this list of questions as a guide to interrogation. It can be used by or with healthcare practitioners, or by anyone who wants to take a critical look at our current weight and health paradigm.
This is really helpful. I'm looking for a new primary care doc right now and want to be armed for some of these conversations. I'm much better at standing up for myself than I was even 5 years ago, but pushing back on docs is always intimidating so being prepared makes a big difference.
Hi Ragen. I tried to contact you in IG DM, not sure if it transmitted. Professor Richard Wolff, the host of Economic Update from the Democracy @ Work project, is looking for program topics. They often speak to the deleterious effects that our current political economy has on health. Much of what they say makes a lot of sense, but they often go into the vein of seeing adiposity as one of those effects. I do think there is fertile ground in their audience to being up the capitalist capture of research and regulatory bodies in the manufactured consent around societal perceptions of the fat population and the role of fat liberation in the struggle for alternative futures. I hope you'll engage their contact, Charlie.Info438@gmail.com about this and let him know of your work and that of others you feel are good lodestones for communication.
This is really helpful. I'm looking for a new primary care doc right now and want to be armed for some of these conversations. I'm much better at standing up for myself than I was even 5 years ago, but pushing back on docs is always intimidating so being prepared makes a big difference.
Hi Ragen. I tried to contact you in IG DM, not sure if it transmitted. Professor Richard Wolff, the host of Economic Update from the Democracy @ Work project, is looking for program topics. They often speak to the deleterious effects that our current political economy has on health. Much of what they say makes a lot of sense, but they often go into the vein of seeing adiposity as one of those effects. I do think there is fertile ground in their audience to being up the capitalist capture of research and regulatory bodies in the manufactured consent around societal perceptions of the fat population and the role of fat liberation in the struggle for alternative futures. I hope you'll engage their contact, Charlie.Info438@gmail.com about this and let him know of your work and that of others you feel are good lodestones for communication.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/16/stable-weight-longer-life/
Fascinating! And actually fits right in with all of the research Ragen has shared that weight loss and cycling tends to do more harm than good.