When it comes to taking diet advice from a physician—size
matters. This is according to a new study led by a team of researchers at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine who examined the impact of primary care physician
BMI (body mass index) on their patients’ trust and perceptions of
weight-related stigma. They found that overweight and obese patients trust
weight-related counseling from overweight physicians more than normal weight
physicians and patients seeing an obese primary care physician were more likely
to perceive weight-related stigma. The results are featured online in the June
2013 issue of Preventive Medicine.