<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-AU" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Dear all, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">We would like to invite you to a seminar with guest speaker <b>Associate Professor Angela Ballantyne</b> (University
of Otago) on <b>Friday 23 June 2023 from 1:00 to 2:30pm</b>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Attend in person</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">:
25C Wally’s Walk, Room C120/C121.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white;text-align:start">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Attend via Zoom</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YSs0CXLW2mU4ml8V9s95q8-?domain=macquarie.zoom.us" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88034276021?pwd=OWVNR0JGNTVpRXpuckdsUTVVdGw5UT09. Click or tap if you trust this link."><span style="color:#0563C1">https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88034276021?pwd=OWVNR0JGNTVpRXpuckdsUTVVdGw5UT09</span></a>;
Password: seminar</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Title<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“Fat bias in medicine: Is it ever OK to encourage a patient to lose weight?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">In this paper I will argue that promoting diets for the purpose of weight loss is ineffective, stigmatising,
and harmful. Diets are ineffective in achieving sustained weight loss and often result in long term weight gain. Why does medicine continue to promote an intervention that is ineffective in 80-95% of patients, and has the <i>opposite </i>of the desired effect
in 1/3 of patients? Testimony from fat people suggests there is no way to engage in medical screening of weight in a manner that is non-stigmatizing. This is in part due to the pervasive cultural bias against fatness and the repeated trauma and stress fat
people experience due to stigma and discrimination. Medicine’s commitment to dieting is influenced by social ideals about temperance and self-control; and efforts to counsel dietary weight loss aim to reform fat peoples’ perceived character flaws – laziness,
dishonesty, lack of discipline. Promoting dietary-induced weight loss thus breaches non-maleficence, damages the therapeutic relationship, and creates a barrier for fat people to access medical care. Health-providers should instead support patients to improve
diet quality and physical activity (where appropriate), as these changes will likely offer health and quality of life benefits, even in the absence of weight loss.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We would be delighted if you were able to join us for a catered afternoon tea afterwards. If you wish to attend the seminar in person, please RSVP for
catering purposes at <a href="mailto:ethics.agency@mq.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">ethics.agency@mq.edu.au</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">This seminar is jointly hosted by the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre and the Work in
Progress Seminar in the Department of Philosophy.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Regina</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Regina Fabry
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">(she/her)<br>
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Editor-in-Chief of
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dAukCQnMBZfX7n2MRcPNWsI?domain=philosophymindscience.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Philosophy and the Mind Sciences</span></a> (Diamond Open Access)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Department of Philosophy</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
Level 7, 25B Wally’s Walk<br>
Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia<br>
<b>E:</b> <a href="mailto:regina.fabry@mq.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">regina.fabry@mq.edu.au</span></a><b> | W:
</b><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Fv6lCROND2uGNwMjOUPRroX?domain=researchers.mq.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/regina-fabry</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/w9c0CVARKgC2MVWNZuJTVEj?domain=mq.edu.au/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="260" height="58" style="width:2.7083in;height:.6041in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D9A2A9.3B8365A0" alt="Macquarie University"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kAntCWLVXkU601MR4umDXA3?domain=mq.edu.au/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands
on the lands of the Dharug Nation. </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kAntCWLVXkU601MR4umDXA3?domain=mq.edu.au/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">I respect Elders, past, present, and future
and recognise the continuity of knowledge </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kAntCWLVXkU601MR4umDXA3?domain=mq.edu.au/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">that nurtures Country and community.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">CRICOS Provider 00002J. ABN: 90 952 801 237. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>