BodyPositive® Boosting body image at any weight

You folks providing medical care are very important!  As consultants to the public about health issues, you can do things which promote self-care, or create a barrier to it.  Consider whether your office and your practice are user-friendly for people of all sizes. 

Check out these resources:

• The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)

• Linda Bacon's HAES community

• Fat Friendly Health Professionals List for guidelines (or to submit your own name)

• NAAFA's policy statements:

  • policy statement on dieting,

  • policy statement on fitness,

  • guidelines for healthcare providers,

  • statement of the healthcare rights of fat people, and

  • guidelines for therapists treating fat people.

• Resources for treatment according to the "health" paradigm rather than the "weightloss" paradigm

• Skip to bibliography of articles on the Non-Diet Approach to Obesity Treatment

• Check out the Healthy Weight Journal for more reviews of this literature

• Surf the "Health at Any Size web ring" (located at the bottom of any BodyPositive.com page) for more sites 

• Read a letter one fat woman wrote to her doctor

CONTENTS:

Children and Weight: The Dilemmas  

Treatment Goals for the Body Positive Group

Top 10 Reasons Not to Prescribe Weight Loss (and what to do instead)

Evaluating Weight Loss Programs: What are the Red Flags?

Professional Bibliography 

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Last updated: March 05, 2011.