Removing the stigma means more than just saying there is a problem.

A few months ago I got an email from the Rudd Center that they had created an online course to help medical professionals reduce
weight-bias stigma.  The Rudd Center recently
came out with a series of YouTube videos about the same subject.  For this, I applaud them.

That being said, the Rudd Center still encourages weight loss as a cure (even after countless studies have
proven that diet-and-exercise methods of losing weight rarely work over the
long term).  For many fat people it's the
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Published on February 09, 2009 16:45
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