
Response to Bill Maher
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Obesity as a Disease
i had the privilege of working very closely as an adviser to the obesity society with a pre eminent researcher on stigma nameda rebecca pool. And i really got a deep dive into the issue of stigma, and understood very quickly how bias and stigma really gets in the way of progress. You know, there's bias about the disease itself, where people presume that it’s a choice that people make, when in fact they have a biological basis. I think for every one who's going to listen to this, you probably should go back and if you haven't already, listened to one of our earliest pod casts on our discussion of obesity as a disease. Cause that's going to be
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