Flutterby™! : The Weight Loss Industry

Anna Mirer: Let’s Talk About Intentional Weight Loss and Evidence-Based Medicine.

Or Weight science: evaluating the evidence for a paradigm shift, Bacon, Aphramor, which is available as an article here.

... Concern has arisen that this weight focus is not only ineffective at producing thinner, healthier bodies, but may also have unintended consequences, contributing to food and body preoccupation, repeated cycles of weight loss and regain, distraction from other personal health goals and wider health determinants, reduced self-esteem, eating disorders, other health decrement, and weight stigmatization and discrimination. ...