Mindframe: Quick Reference Guide for Communicating about Medically Assisted Weight Loss

Organisation / Service

Mindframe and the National Eating Disorders Collaboration

This resource provides guidance for discussing medically assisted weight loss in ways that prioritise safety, rely on credible evidence, and reflect community insights. The aim is to reduce weight stigma, and the risks and harms associated with eating disorders.

National Strategy Standards and Actions

Prevention

1.2 All levels of government to ensure that public policy and initiatives related to education, health promotion, food and nutrition, physical activity, weight management, advertising and media do not contribute to eating disorder risk, drawing on eating disorder-safe
principles and expert input.