Walk a mile in obese person’s shoes: Fat suit adds sorely needed insight

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Walk a mile in obese person’s shoes: Fat suit adds sorely needed insight

11 September 2019

Zahra

Shahtahmasebi

zshahtahmasebi@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 06:30 AM

Professor Dixon would like to see every country make a concerted effort to find "articulate, smart, business-minded people with lived experience" of being obese, who can share their realities.

John Dixon says his best advice to clinicians dealing with obesity is to try on a "fat suit". The bulky padding gives them an inkling of what being

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