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Three links with a common theme

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The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia

The vernacular of deprivation, control, and aspirational containment that pervaded the pop culture of the ‘90s and 2000s.

The Relentless Reality of Anti-Fatness in Fitness

A look at how we got to this point and where we go from here.

Fat-Bias Could Have Killed This Patient

— How a patient was misdiagnosed because of his weight

...and that's why everyone is taught in diagnostics that you look at the whole picture, and that algorithms are the beginning, not the end, and that while you look for horses first, you look for ALL the horses...but apparently, some people forget these lessons.


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