Dr Pilar Ortega joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Glenn Martínez, Marco A. Alemán, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, and Tiffany M. Shin: “Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health.”
Weight loss is not a safe, effective, or permanent method of health promotion, and pharmacotherapeutical approaches pose specific risks to adolescents.
Before the late 20th century, overweight and obesity were not considered population-wide health risks, but the advent of weight loss drugs in the 1990s accelerated hypermedicalization via BMI use.
Underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy include thin-centrism and inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership.
Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms.