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Missing the target: including perspectives of women with overweight and obesity to inform stigma‐reduction strategies

open access: yesObesity Science & Practice, 2017
Summary Objective Pervasive weight stigma and discrimination have led to ongoing calls for efforts to reduce this bias. Despite increasing research on stigma‐reduction strategies, perspectives of individuals who have experienced weight stigma have rarely
R. M. Puhl   +3 more
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Weight stigma and mental health in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of US adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionWeight stigma is associated with poor mental health outcomes. Yet little is known about whether the strength of the association between weight stigma and mental health outcomes differs by race or ethnicity, or factors that mitigate the mental
Mary A. Gerend   +2 more
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How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2018
Background In an era when obesity prevalence is high throughout much of the world, there is a correspondingly pervasive and strong culture of weight stigma.
A. Janet Tomiyama   +6 more
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Experienced and internalized weight stigma among Spanish adolescents

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background and objective Weight stigma has negative consequences for both physiological and psychological health. Studies on weight stigma in adolescence, particularly from general populations, are scarce in the Mediterranean area.
Dimitra Anastasiadou   +5 more
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Social media use and weight bias internalization: association moderated by age and weight perception

open access: yesJournal of Eating Disorders
Abstract Background The current study examined whether weight perception or age moderated associations between time spent on image-based social media and weight bias internalization (WBI). Methods Data come from the baseline visit of the Tracking Our Lives Study, a ...
Michelle Moufawad   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Internalized weight bias and loss-of-control eating following bariatric surgery. [PDF]

open access: yesEat Disord, 2021
Lawson JL   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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