Physician Fatima Cody Stanford tells a Tufts audience how bias about obesity and overweight is damaging patientsAt a recent obesity medicine conference,Fatima Cody Stanford was approached by a colleague who said she’d always been standoffish around Stanford and wanted to explain why. When they were five years former, she said, or taking a dance course together,Stanford had told her she was fat.
“piece of me died inside. I see myself as an ally for those with overweight and obesity, and I influenced her whole life by my comment, or said Stanford,the keynote speaker on weight bias and health at the third annual Breaking the Silence symposium, held March 29 on the Boston Health Sciences campus.
Source: tufts.edu