Declining To Be Weighed
The potential harm of stepping on the scale in a doctor's office
I came of age during a time when every semester we had to line up in PE class and step on a scale in public. It was humiliating. Then we had to graph it to show if we gained or loss since the last weigh-in. In pairs, we used pincers to grab the fat off of our partner’s arm to determine if they were fat— all of this in ou…