Well-Intentioned Anti-Obesity Campaigns May Be Backfiring
- 4 years ago
Public health officials haven't held back in linking obesity to worse outcomes for patients with the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
But organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are, under the guise of matter-of-factness, covertly fat-shaming the overweight.
Body relationship coach Ivy Felicia says the messaging around weight and COVID-19 might negatively affect those at higher weights.
HuffPost reports eating disorder therapist Shira Rosenbluth also takes issue with the weight loss campaigns public health officials are promoting right now.
Telling higher-weight people they’re more likely to die, for them to be under that kind of stress, is obviously very unhealthy. Shira Rosenbluth Eating disorder therapist
But organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are, under the guise of matter-of-factness, covertly fat-shaming the overweight.
Body relationship coach Ivy Felicia says the messaging around weight and COVID-19 might negatively affect those at higher weights.
HuffPost reports eating disorder therapist Shira Rosenbluth also takes issue with the weight loss campaigns public health officials are promoting right now.
Telling higher-weight people they’re more likely to die, for them to be under that kind of stress, is obviously very unhealthy. Shira Rosenbluth Eating disorder therapist