Patient-Centered Care for Obesity: How Health Care Providers Can Treat Obesity While Actively Addressing Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Risk.

In the nutrition, obesity, and eating disorder (ED) fields, polarizing discourse exists around whether treating obesity and reducing weight stigma and ED psychopathology are mutually exclusive.1-7 The objective of this commentary was to examine and synthesize evidence surrounding the relationship between obesity treatment and weight stigma and ED risk to combat the false dichotomy that exists between treating obesity and reducing weight stigma and ED risk. First, an overview of obesity, weight stigma, and ED are introduced, followed by discussion of self-directed dieting vs evidence-based obesity treatments and their relation to factors that influence ED risk.