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Hi Ragen. Thanks for all that you do. I think I know the answer to this, but I was wondering what your take is on Dr Fatima Stanford, and her insistence on treating ob*sity with medication. She was on the well-respected NYT podcast First Person, and she made some cogent and intelligent sounding arguments related to medical improvements. …
Hi Ragen. Thanks for all that you do. I think I know the answer to this, but I was wondering what your take is on Dr Fatima Stanford, and her insistence on treating ob*sity with medication. She was on the well-respected NYT podcast First Person, and she made some cogent and intelligent sounding arguments related to medical improvements. I just would like another opinion, namely yours. I know the damage that fat shaming by the medical community does to people in larger sized bodies, but she seemed to be saying something different, about medical outcomes. Thanks again.
I'm sure that Dr. Stanford is well-meaning, but she has pinned her career to this body-size-as-disease model and is also absolutely a mouthpiece for the weight loss industry (she takes a ton of pharmaceutical payments.) She is adopting their talking points of being "anti-weight-stigma" but only in the service of pushing more dangerous (and expensive/profitable) drugs and surgeries. I talk about this phenomenon in this article if it helps: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/gina-kolata-and-the-nyt-lobby-for
Does that help? Is there something I'm missing?