Anti-Fat Bias Harms the Movement for Safe Streets — Particularly for Kids

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By Kea WilsonOct 12, 2023, 12:00 am330 pts
A disturbing amount of research on Safe Routes to School programs over-focuses on whether children lose weight from walking and biking to class while ignoring more meaningful measurements of their health and well being, a new paper finds — and the author argues it’s reinforcing a troubling trend of anti-fat…

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