I often talk with patients about the distorted images about our bodies that industry and the media widely propagate. It’s hard to live in our society and yet avoid thinking that we all need to look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie in order to be attractive.

Dr. Scott Kahan will speak at the Rayburn House Office Building at a Congressional Briefing on February 7th. The event, hosted by the nonprofit Sister-to-Sister Women’s Heart Health Foundation, is a briefing for Congressional staff on heart health, nutrition, and obesity.

Georgia’s recent campaign highlighting childhood obesity, which has received lots of recent press, is an example of what not to do to help this public health problem. This is an example of an uninformed, anti-fat-person campaign.