Weight Management Quiz medical ethics

Which of the following said, "Obesity (in America) has achieved the status of an infectious disease"?

Professor Julie Gutman

Suppose a Biggest Loser weighed 400 pounds, gained 200 pounds, then lost the 200 pounds during the show. Two years after at a weight of 400 pounds, why would this contestant still feel hungry when he ate the same as he did two years before?

His metabolism changed when he weighed 600 pounds.`

In terms of the best, most long-lasting outcomes, the best time to perform bariatric surgery on a morbidly overweight teenager is at age

In the teenage years.

What is the opposite of Fat Shaming?

Nudging people to make better choices in public policy.

When Faith Fitzgerald, MD wrote about "the dark side of being thin," she was attacking the prevalent assumption that:

Being thin equates to being healthy and being overweight equates to being sick.

Who argued that shaming worked with cigarette smoking, so we should try it with overweight people?

Daniel Callahan

About how many of the Biggest Losers kept their weight off five years later?

Almost none of them.

What group of women, by profession and/or sport, is most likely to be anorexic?

Ballet dancers and long-distance runners.