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The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
Prescribing weight loss to Black women ignores barriers to their health
Lindo Bacon (formerly Linda) is an associate nutritionist at the University of California, Davis. They are author of Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight (BenBella, 2010) and Radical Belonging (BenBella, 2020) and co-author of Body Respect (BenBella, 2014).
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