7. Stand up to doctors with bad bedside manners.
Research suggests even doctors can harbor negative assumptions about fat people. Though doctors are there to watch our health and give us counseling, they should continue to try and get patients to lose weight, but by presenting obesity strictly as a health risk. And not as some kind of “moral failing.”
8. Rethink Strong4Life’s “tough” approach.
Opponents of this campaign to combat childhood obesity believe it’s fat-shaming overweight children. They fear it reinforces the idea that fat kids should be singled out and made examples of. It features faces of fat kids with captions like: “Chubby kids may not outlive their parents.” Shouldn’t children be celebrated for who they are, not what they look like?
