How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health

Our national war on fat has created a colossal health and diet industry closely enmeshed with government agencies. Profit motives for our sixty billion dollar diet industry and fat stigma have become so entangled that it has become difficult, perhaps impossible, to even entertain the possibility that we are fighting the wrong war . . . the purpose of the diet industrial complex is to keep people dieting . . . rather than to seek health.

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