Eating disorder specialists not immune to weight bias

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Eating disorder specialists not immune to weight bias

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even some mental health professionals that treat eating disorders harbor prejudice against the obese, a new study suggests. "Weight bias has been documented among different groups of health providers like doctors, nurses and medical students, so there is no reason to expect that professionals who treat eating disorders would be immune to the same bias," lead researcher Rebecca Puhl of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, said. ...

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