When it comes to taking diet advice from a physician, size matters.
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University schools of public health and medicine examined the impact of primary care physician BMI (body mass index) on their patients' trust and perceptions of weight-related stigma. They found that overweight and obese patients trust weight-related counseling from overweight physicians more than normal weight physicians, and that patients seeing an obese primary care physician were more likely to perceive weight-related stigma. The results of their research are featured online in the June issue of Preventive Medicine.
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