Across both the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study including 13,692 older adults and the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study including 5079 adults, people who reported experiencing weight discrimination had a 60% increased risk of dying, independent of BMI.
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Weight Stigmatization is both a social injustice and a public health issue. If you are a health care provider focused on changing a patient's weight, please click the link in each of the posts below to learn that what you think you know about weight science is probably not true, how detrimental fat-shaming can be to a person's physical and emotional health, and how you can acknowledge and overcome your own internal weight bias and stigmatizing behavior.
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