Consumer Information

Weight Bias in Health Care

April 5, 2010

This 17-minute video by Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity gives an excellent insight into the problem of weight bias. It focuses specifically on how overweight and obese individuals are discriminated against in the health care profession, but also indicates that this bias is prevalent for overweight people wherever they go.  While [...]

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Mission Impossible: Getting Nutrition Information from Restaurants

April 2, 2010

Have you ever attempted to get nutrition information from a restaurant?  My experience at Texas Roadhouse proved that this information is impossible to get.  That may soon change.  As part of President Obama’s push for health reform, his administration is targeting restaurants and asking them to be more transparent in their menus so that people [...]

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