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What Do Patients With Obesity Want From Their HCPs?
Although health care professionals (HCP) are generally not the first people that people living with obesity turn to for help, when they do, the advise they get is not always helpful. This is perhaps...
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Listening With Compassion
One of the key themes that emerged from our interviews with patients recently published in Clinical Obesity, was the importance of “real” listening and the role of compassion. “People described feeling...
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Recognising Strengths
The longer I work in our bariatric clinic, the more I am convinced that this is where you will see some of the strongest people alive. Certainly, no one can begin to imagine what it takes to live as a...
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Shifting Beliefs About Obesity
There should not be any misconceptions about how many misconceptions about obesity, its causes, its consequences, and its treatments exist – not just in the general public but also amongst people...
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Co-Constructing A New Story
For many patients, searching for the underlying reasons for their weight journey is fraught with shame and self-blame. This is why it was not surprising that from our interviews with patients and...
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Orienting Actions On Value Goals
Although many of the comorbidities associated with obesity are directly linked to excess body weight, and losing weight has been shown to dramatically improve overall health and well-being (at least in...
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Fostering Reflection
As should be clear by now, obesity management often involves reframing the story, changing misconceptions about obesity, managing expectations, reorienting from weight to health goals. All of this...
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Why Obesity Is A Chronic Disease
While I am currently teaching at a Harvard Medical School course on obesity for obesity educators here in Las Vegas, I thought it may be appropriate to post a link to my recent Obesity Canada webinar...
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No One Should Be Surprised That There Are Skinny Genes
Anyone who has ever seriously looked at the genetics of obesity should be well aware that body weight and size is a highly heritable trait. As one may expect, this heritability extends across the...
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Conversation Cards for Adolescents© – Helping adolescents make healthy...
Maryam Kebbe, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Today’s post comes from Maryam Kebbe, a fourth year Doctoral student studying under the supervision of Dr. Geoff Ball in the Department...
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