Dr. Jenny Talbert

Dr. Jenny Talbert Weight-neutral chiropractor and educator

Do you have these things in your practice? And no, taking a blood pressure reading on the forearm is not as accurate as ...
08/17/2026

Do you have these things in your practice?

And no, taking a blood pressure reading on the forearm is not as accurate as a proper sized arm cuff.

Learn more in the link in my bio.

08/12/2026

Anyone else feel like this in the summer?

Most of us were trained in the same weight-centric model of healthcare. So when a patient brings up their body, the defa...
08/10/2026

Most of us were trained in the same weight-centric model of healthcare. So when a patient brings up their body, the default script kicks in: talk about changing the body to feel better.

What if that’s not the problem? What if it’s the weight stigma and ableism baked into how we were taught to practice?

This carousel walks through some language shifts I use in my own office, moving away from lifestyle talk and toward something that actually helps patients feel heard.

If you’re a provider and this is landing for you, that discomfort is worth sitting with rather than brushing past.

If you want to go deeper into the science of weight stigma and how to talk about it differently with your patients, the link in my bio has access to the Weight Inclusive Care Training Course I built with my colleague Tiffany North, RN

Before I unlearned diet culture and weight centric care, I wish someone had handed me these five research papers. If you...
08/06/2026

Before I unlearned diet culture and weight centric care, I wish someone had handed me these five research papers. If you are new to weight-inclusive care or still working through unlearning the weight centric model, start here.

1. Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift, Bacon and Aphramor, Nutrition Journal, 2011. This paper makes the case for shifting the healthcare paradigm from a conventional weight focus to Health at Every Size.https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9
2. Relationship Between Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality in Normal-Weight, Overweight, and Obese Men, Wei et al, JAMA, 1999. Shows that fitness level predicted mortality risk regardless of BMI.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.16.1547
3. Stigma in Practice: Barriers to Health for Fat Women, Lee and Pausé, Frontiers in Psychology, 2016. Explores the structural and institutional barriers fat people face in accessing healthcare.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02063
4. Obesity Treatment: Weight Loss Versus Increasing Fitness and Physical Activity for Reducing Health Risks, Gaesser and Angadi, iScience, 2021. Makes the case for a weight neutral approach over intentional weight loss.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102995
5. Long-term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health, Tomiyama, Ahlstrom, and Mann, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2013. Finds that dieting was not reliably correlated with improved health outcomes.https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12076

Save this and start working through them one at a time, they will change how you think about weight and health for good.

There’s a new definition of weight stigma coming out of this year’s Weight Stigma Conference in Oslo, and it’s something...
08/03/2026

There’s a new definition of weight stigma coming out of this year’s Weight Stigma Conference in Oslo, and it’s something a lot of healthcare providers have felt but never quite had words for.

Weight stigma is the devaluation and dehumanization of larger-bodied people driven by pathologization of higher weight, societal prejudice, and discriminatory practice operating at individual, group, community, population, and structural levels, limiting full and fair participation in life.

Most of us were trained inside a system that treated body size as a diagnosis before anything else, so a definition like this matters because it stops treating weight stigma like a personality flaw in one bad provider and names it as something structural. Viewing larger-bodied people as diseased, with requirements for long-term chronic management, is the embodiment of weight stigma, and it shows up more often than we’d like to admit.

Inside Weight Inclusive Care Training, we walk you through exactly how to reduce weight stigma in your practice with history, tools, and scripts to help your next patient, no matter what kind of care you provide.

Link in bio to get started.

08/01/2026

What a world we live in right now.

Being a chiropractor online brings me enough hate but also being a fat activist….you gotta be tough to get through the comment section.

I believe reducing weight-stigma does not mean getting rid of fat people.

If you are a healthcare provider wanting to learn how to make your office safer for fat people, check out the link in my bio.

None of us chose to absorb anti-fat bias, but growing up in this culture means we all did, patients and providers alike....
07/31/2026

None of us chose to absorb anti-fat bias, but growing up in this culture means we all did, patients and providers alike.

The good news is that unlearning it is possible, and books have been one of the most powerful tools in my own process of unlearning diet culture and building weight-inclusive care into my practice.

These five books cover everything from the history of anti-fat bias to the science of why intentional weight loss fails to practical ways to build trust with patients around food and their bodies.

Whether you are a provider in a larger body yourself or you need research to back you up when a colleague pushes back, there is something here for you.

If you want practical tools to bring this into your own practice, our Weight-Neutral Care Training course can help, link in bio to check it out.

Save this post and follow along, this is part two of a four part series on where I would start with weight-inclusive care.

07/30/2026

If you are renewing your license soon and need your two hours of cultural competence continuing education, we have the only course approved by the OHA on how to reduce weight-stigma in your practice.

🔗 Link in bio for access to the course

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Springfield, MO
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