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Perryn Ford Whenever we go to the doctor’s office whether it’s for an annual physical or a sore throat one of the first things we do is step on a scale. For some of us, it’s a fraught moment: Will the number be higher or lower than last time? How will we feel about that? And folks in larger bodies, especially, may wonder: What will my
doctor think about that?
In a paper published in 2014, researchers found that 21% of patients with BMIs in the “overweight” and “obese” ranges felt that their doctor “judged them about their weight” and as a result, they were significantly less likely to trust their doctor or even to return for follow-up care. And research shows that this lack of trust is valid: Doctors
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Is anyone feeling one part stoked and the other part apprehensive about the idea of having more in-person interactions in the near future?
Like: Give me my people and places, and give them to me now. But also, I have mostly been seen in good lighting, from the shoulders up and through a Zoom filter for the last year. And the thing is, like everything else since the beginning of the pandemic, my body has changed. As has my wardrobe (ILYSM, joggers).
Should your child’s weight determine your fitness to be a parent? According to a family court judge in Sussex, England, the answer seems to be yes. In a decision filed last October, which recently made international headlines, District Judge Gillian Ellis ordered that then–16-year-old “Child C” and 13-year-old “Child D” be placed in foster care after their parents failed to help them lose weight. “I know that you love your mother and father very much and I know they love you too,” Ellis wrote. “But I am concerned about your health and the way in which your weight impacts on this.”