Bringing Up BMI With Children, Adolescents and Families

"One of the most common stigmatizing experiences that fat people report in the doctor's office is being lectured about weight loss," she says. "That has been and continues to be the prevailing instruction given to medical students, right? And it's now baked into our insurance system,. Such that if doctors want to be paid for their work, they are required to report not only the patient's BMI but also that they were counseled on weight loss."