#108 - How Weight Stigma Harms Culture and Excludes Higher Weight People from IVF, Hip Replacements and More, with Fiona Willer

Why do higher weight folks get denied treatment for hip
replacements, IVF, and even adoption? Find out the ways our
culture excludes fat people even when research contradicts our
approaches. My guest is Fiona Willer, HAES dietitian, academic,
educator and creator of the HealthNotDiets Digest.


About Fiona
Fiona Willer's mission is to empower health professionals to
adopt weight neutral practice by providing support and training
in how and why to do so. In short, she wants to destroy the
perception and practice of 'dietitian as food police.'


As an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and university
lecturer in nutrition and dietetics, she values nourishment,
autonomy, authenticity and evidence based practice. Her academic
research areas are dietetic private practice benchmarking,
interprofessional learning and HAES integration into dietetics. A
love for research and presenting has led Fiona into presenting
professional development workshops for HAES integration into
clinical practice since 2013. Fiona has close to a decade of
academic work (unit coordination, lecturing, tutoring, marking,
research assisting) under her belt and has been employed by
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Central Queensland
University (CQU) and the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC).
Fiona has also reviewed submissions for peer-reviewed academic
journals including Appetite and Fat Studies Journal.


After graduating from dietetics, Fiona initially spent three
years as a clinical dietitian at The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane,
working in a wide range of clinical areas in addition to
coordinating and practising in The Wesley Hospital’s dietetic
outpatient clinic, Dietitians Wesley. She also built a successful
private practice, NutritionSense Allied Health, at Taringa in
Brisbane from 2008 before selling it in 2014. Much of her private
practice work was with chronic dieters with whom she frequently
used the non-diet approach.


Fiona’s PhD research findings have cemented her resolve that
weight neutral approaches should be part of every clinician’s
skill set and her research continues to inform the professional
development workshops and training she provides through Health,
Not Diets. She is the author of two non-diet approach guidebooks
for health professionals and developed the Non-Diet Approach
Model, which operationalizes the Health at Every Size (R)
principals for clinical practice.


FionaWiller.com | Health Not Diets | Unpacking Weight Science |
Instagram | Twitter


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