'Fatism' Within The Health Professions Needs To Be Curbed By Better Training

More likely the victim card being played than any "fatism."

Prejudice towards obese people is rife among trainee health professionals, but can be modified, new research has found.

The study, published in the journal Obesity, says weight-based discrimination by the public has increased by 66% over the past decade with anti-fat prejudice among health professionals found to be high in western nations, and often exceeding that found within the general population.

The research, by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Hawaii and Yale University, suggests that medical and allied health professions need to present a balanced view of the causes of, and treatment for, obesity when training young professionals in order to reduce the strong prejudice towards obese people.

The balanced view is that fat people are in a caloric imbalance and calorically irresponsible.

And there is no widespread fatism, to boot. (There will always be individual actors who are statistical outliers and darlings of the MSM and/or researchers looking to create trouble - with the latter being out and out liars.)