Suggestion to health reporters: If you are writing about a condition, make sure your reporting includes people who have that condition.
From Quartz: How obesity became the new face of disability in America
The article opens by comparing “lean” hikers to obese former steel workers in Colorado, then interviews doctors, economists, and public health officials, but no actual disabled people. It would be better reporting to actually talk to the people being written about. Ask them about their lives, their ideas, their concerns, their happiness, their efforts to change or not.