Dietitian’s Mistaken Claims Confuse Obesity Health Risk

Dietitian’s Mistaken Claims Confuse Obesity Health Risk
Doctors have challenged the fat acceptance advocate who tried to discredit the link between obesity and chronic illness. Africa Studio/Shutterstock
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In a recent New York Times opinion column, dietitian Christy Harrison, an “intuitive eating coach” and author, responded to a fellow clinician who had questioned some of her thoughts on the link between being overweight and developing other medical conditions.

Harrison noted that although most health professionals have been taught that higher body mass index (BMI) causes poor health outcomes, she wrote, “unfortunately, that just isn’t true.”