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Certified Body Trust Provider and Health at Every Size recovery coach and consultant Sarah Thompson joins us to talk about the barriers she faced to getting an eating disorder diagnosis, the ways in which diet culture has infiltrated naturopathy and Chinese medicine, the lack of Health at Every Size education in healthcare programs, the false connection that diet culture makes between larger bodies and being unhealthy, weight bias in «food addiction» theory, and so much more!

Weight bias in the healthcare community is a moral issue!!

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The problem of confirmation bias — a tendency to place weight on data that back up our beliefs, which can prevent us from exploring alternatives — has recently been explored in a number of pop psychology books.

So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a bull market as most of Wall Street has to be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists even in harshest bear markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very profitable renewals for many years to come.

They use False Discovery Rate (FDR) to control for data snooping bias, such that 90 % of the equally weighted best rules in FDR - corrected portfolios significantly outperform the benchmark.

(3) Evolutionary scenarios share in the naturalistic bias of science (as the investigation of natural processes), which tends to weight evolution in the direction of a philosophical naturalism.

The data was self - reported, in questionnaires, including an estimation of the child's weight and therefore may be subject to responder bias.

Only one black was among the 37 university presidents who framed the legislation, and representatives of predominantly black schools were incensed by the weight given to the standardized tests, which have been widely and persuasively attacked as culturally biased in favor of white, middle - class youngsters.

Positioning the weights in the heel and toe increases the club's forgiveness, moving one of the weights to the toe and the other one to the center adds fade bias and so on.

83 % overall rating (Weighted), bias against both teams 71/29 (yes an overall bias in favour of Arsenal!)

81 % Overall performance (weighted), bias against both teams 100/0 so every bad decision in favour of Palace with Chamach seemingly allowed to do anything he wanted.

Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated with SIDS risks in study participants and nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).

Let's try to separate those two things in the future instead of contributing to weight bias and discrimination.

In fact this leads to some systemic biases, the main pollsters using quasi-random polling, ICM and Populus, both find too many Labour voters in their raw samples and have to use weighting to correct iIn fact this leads to some systemic biases, the main pollsters using quasi-random polling, ICM and Populus, both find too many Labour voters in their raw samples and have to use weighting to correct iin their raw samples and have to use weighting to correct it.

Such a scenario would result in biased measurements, suggesting that two particles are correlated more than they actually are, and giving more weight to quantum mechanics than classical physics.

This effectively gave a much greater weight to the high emission (A1) scenarios compared with scenarios in the other families that the SRES authors elected not to explore in the same detail, and led to a significant upward bias in the probability distribution.

The Schmittner et al. analysis marks the insensitive end of the spectrum of climate sensitivity estimates based on LGM data, in large measure because it used a data set and a weighting that may well be biased toward insufficient cooling.

In order to avoid a potential bias caused by selection of a particular referent subject, subject - specific SI maps from all the subjects are summarized as a weighted average, with the Jaccard index for each subject as the weight.

The research, published in the journal Obesity, showed that higher levels of «weight - bias internalization» — the term for what happens when people are aware of negative stereotypes about obesity and apply those stereotypes to themselves — were associated with more cases of metabolic syndrome, a combination of health issues that raise the risk for heart disease and diabetes.

It isn't clear why some women internalize weight bias and others don't, Pearl says — whether they're in a supportive environment and exposed less to fat shaming, or are simply less vulnerable to its effects.

After the researchers adjusted for age, gender, race, and BMI, they found that women who scored in the top half for weight - bias internalization were three times more likely to have metabolic syndrome that those in the bottom half.

Fighting weight bias But the last article in this special issue, by Jennifer Pomeranz at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, is food for thought for anyone interested in tackling the nation's obesity crisis.

Jeff Nelson from VegSource has tried to do a hatchet job on nuts & weight loss in favor of a Mc Dougall bias.

This may favourably influence their ability to resist hunger and hence bias subjective measures of appetite.82 Furthermore, the effects of weight - loss upon subjective appetite measures are most frequently detected in pre-meal and post-absorptive states, indeed, the use of visual analogue scales have only been validated for this purpose.85

In particular, calorie - focused thinking is inherently biased against high - fat foods, many of which appear to be protective against obesity and the diseases of metabolic syndrome, and supportive of refined starch and sugar replacements, which are clearly detrimental, and exclusive of their calories and effects on weight gain [27], [28].

Because the possibility of bias is greater in case control studies, prospective studies are generally given more weight in the evaluation of the effect of nutrient intake on disease.

It goes through in detail various potential sources of error and bias (e.g. manner and timing of reporting of weight, mammography, high risk vs average population, cancer subtypes, hormone therapies, etc) that may be confounding results, and relates results of previous studies to those of a more recent study which attempted to correct for some of these errors.

Harris Interactive says the results have been weighted to correct for potential bias in its online surveys.

We need to address issues of weight - based bias, and / or racism, and / or homophobia in our school community.

My belief is that for every individual student every grade matters and will definitely bear an impact on the rest of their life, but will the «thresholds of inequality» in the new Progress 8 weighting bias force schools to prioritise higher ability students over others?

Mechanical grip is aided by a rear - biased weight distribution (54 percent of the F12's weight is on the rear axle), a five - link rear suspension (the 599 used control arms), and enormous Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires (315 / 35s at the rear, 255 / 35s in front, all on twenty - inch wheels).

What one doesn't notice at relatively low speeds are the E-tron's 70 percent rear - biased torque split, its 42/58 percent front / rear weight distribution, the torque vectoring that combats excessive understeer and oversteer, or the qualities of the suspension, which uses control arms in the front and rear.

The chassis is balanced such that you can hang the tail out like a hero through corners and roundabouts — that extra weight is mostly in back, so the Gran Coupe is more rear - biased than either the 3 Series or the two - door 4 Series.

You're more aware of the rearward weight bias than in a modern 911, but it's there to be exploited rather than feared.

But you only need to see how far back the engine is in the chassis to understand why the One - 77's nose is so long, and the result of the rearward weight bias this brings is that the front end feels super planted.

The Bora's four - wheel independent suspension — a first for the Modenese brand — used conventional springs and dampers rather than Citroen's cushy hydropneumatic system, and its rear - biased weight distribution rendered power steering unnecessary — at least for rich bodybuilders who lived in parts of the world where parallel parking wasn't a factor.

The 911's rear weight bias helped rotate the car during the sessions where we practiced slaloms and Scandinavian Flicks, its communicative steering relayed clear warnings of understeer, and its engine — whether in the 325 - hp Carrera 4 or the 355 - hp Carrera 4S — made sure that there was always enough power to push through the snow.

The electric motor transfers its power to the rear wheels via a twin - speed gearbox also mounted at the rear in a layout that provides a distinct rearward weight bias.

Having this weight in the back naturally uses all of the tires more efficiently during braking, instead of overloading the front tires which is what tends to happen in a front biased car.

So front is more efficient than rear in case of rear weight biased car.

Forget any notion the raised ride height might be aligned to four - wheel drive to give the toughened - up Beetle proper off - road credentials; the Dune will retain the same front - wheel drive set - up as its on - road biased siblings in the interest of weight saving.

Thanks to front mid-engine and transmission in transaxle configuration on the rear axle, the AMG GT R has a rear - biased weight distribution of 47.3 to 52.7 and a low center of gravity.

* Revised ZF 6HP26 transmission with «Quickshift» system that cuts shift times by 50 % and enables double downshifts * New 40/60 rear - biased torque split for the all - wheel drive system reduces understeer when powering out of bends and provides for better modulation of line and attitude by «throttle steering» * Uprated front suspension with aluminium forward levers, stiffer bushes together with retuned anti?roll bar and Servotronic steering for sharper turn - in * Revised Continuous Damping Control (CDC) for improved body control * Unique lightweight, 20 - inch, 10 - spoke alloy wheels offer 10 kg (22 lb) weight saving per car, reducing unsprung and rotating mass and improving brake cooling.

Weight aside, it's easily as competent through twisting roads as any competitor is — and all - wheel drive assuredness with a rear - bias actually makes it feel exciting in a way a car of this size surely shouldn't.

Combined with a tall ride, front - biased weight distribution, and AWD layout, the Q3 will have quite a few setbacks to overcome in the handling department.

It's agile, but like most front - drive cars, sporty or not, the weight bias is decidedly forward, and it's not very difficult to provoke noisy protest from the front tires in enthusiastic cornering.

It's only in full - attack mode on really tight roads or a racetrack that the car's inherent forward weight bias rears its head, resulting in some occasionally tricky handling behavior at the limit.

The Sport Trac Adrenalin all - wheel - drive system exhibits a 60 / 40 - torque split biased to the rear, so as weight is transferred to the back in takeoff, engine torque is delivered where it's needed — without unnecessary wheel spin.

Add in 50/50 weight distribution, rear - biased AWD, and an Adaptive Dynamics system that constantly monitors body roll and you have a cozy family - hauler that actually drives like a Jaguar.

Technical Data Bentley Continental Supersports: Light Alloy W12 - cylinder - engine (72deg angle between two main banks, 15deg between staggered cylinders), bore x stroke 84 x 90.2 mm, capacity 5998 cc; 4 valves per cylinder, chain - driven DOHC per bank, cam phased inlet and outlet; Bosch digital engine control, twin turbochargers, 600PS / 621 bhp / 449kW) at 6000rpm, torque 800Nm (590 lb ft) at 1700 to 5600rev / min; Fuel E85 & 98 (95) RON; ZF 6 - speed «Quickshift» automatic gearbox; continuous four - wheel drive with 40/60 rear bias torque split, central Torsen differential; suspension front: four - link double wishbones, computer - controlled self - levelling air suspension, anti-roll bar; suspension rear:: trapezoidal multi-link, computer - controlled self - levelling air suspension, anti-roll bar; dampers: continuous damping control with four adjustable settings, electronic traction control, electronic stability program; carbon / ceramic brakes, cross-drilled, front discs 420 mm diameter, rear 356 mm diameter; HBA «Hydraulic Brake Assist» and EBD «Electronic Brakeforce Distribution», MSR drag torque control; kerb weight 4,939 lbs (2240 kg), wheelbase 108.07 in (2745 mm), track front 63.9 in (1,623 mm), track rear 65.2 in (1,657 mm); wheels 20» x 9.5 J 10 - spoke (black chrome or painted) with tyres 275 / 35x20 Pirelli P - Zero UHP; electronic tyre pressure monitoring system; max.