The Worst Impact of Anti-Fat Strategy Isn’t ‘Unhealthy Behaviours’ It’s Early Death and Suffering

Lucy Aphramor
4 min readApr 19, 2021

UK news is that BMI-based healthcare has been formally recognised as harmful. Wowee. That’s great.

This questioning happened off the back of a report called Changing the perfect picture: an inquiry into body image.” Well, more accurately, it’s off the back of the courage and pain and scholarship and

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Lucy Aphramor

Lucy Aphramor is a radical dietitian and performance poet. They are Associate Professor of Gender, Power, and The Right to Food at CAWR, Coventry University UK.