Weight Inclusive Healthcare Guide
Check out this free resource created by the Weight Inclusive Healthcare Initiative through the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine!
Student Authors: Divya R. Alley, Divya Vemulapalli, Annika Ballantyne, Laurel M P Neufeld, Sophia Harris, Varsha Venkat (MD), Lenora Goodman (RDN), Ayomide Ojebuoboh (CPT)
From the Authors: This is an open access educational guide for patients, healthcare professionals and students that challenges healthcare’s weight centric approach to health created by the Weight Inclusive Healthcare Initiative through the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine. We explore racism and eugenics of BMI, the pathologization of size, weight stigma in healthcare, nutrition and eating disorders in a diet culture era and joyful movement. This guide is our offering to make healthcare a more just and healing place for those in larger bodies and historically marginalized people.