Research is mounting showing the pernicious effects of weight stigma on health. As public health professionals, our responsibility is to root out the practices and systems that perpetuate weight stigma.
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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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