-There is no federal legislation that protects the civil rights of fat workers, and only one state, Michigan, bans discrimination on the basis of weight.
-In one study, more than half of the 620 primary care doctors questioned for one study described obese patients as “awkward, unattractive, ugly, and unlikely to comply with treatment.”
- One recent study shows that the higher a patient’s body mass, the less respect doctors express for that patient.
-Most doctors advise they don’t bother telling a patient they are overweight, and attempt to counsel them on their weight, because they don’t think they’ll listen or do anything about it.
-Overweight people are one of the last people to not only have prejudices against them, but it be OK to have prejudices against them.
