Weight Stigma

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Collection of episodes from BodyKindness focusing on weight stigma

Public health expert Sara Bleich, PhD ’07, says it’s time to deal with obesity as the urgent crisis that it is. A professor of public health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former director of nutrition security for the Biden administration, Bleich says the disease is largely preventable but to make progress, the country must deal with persistent inequities in the healthcare system—and the structural racism that underlies them. Join us this time for a conversation about obesity, public health, and race.

Join actress and activist Jameela Jamil (The Good Place, She-Hulk) as she explores issues surrounding mental health, body image, and activism with a diverse range of inspiring guests like Esther Perel, Greta Thunberg, Aubrey Gordon, and Jane Fonda. You’ll hear thought-provoking (often hilarious!) stories and vulnerable conversations that will leave you feeling empowered and uplifted. Discover how to celebrate progress over perfection, and learn how to encourage better mental health, healthier body positivity, and more. This podcast is more than just talk – it’s a movement.

Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon debunk the junk science behind health and wellness fads.

from the Director of Obesity UK, “Our main aim is to empower and provide information to people living with obesity - by raising awareness and unpacking the psychological factors and stigma associated with it. We will give people a voice and help them gain access to the treatment that is right for them.”

Brought to you by World Obesity and SCOPE E-learning, you will be challenged to rethink everything you thought you knew about obesity. You’ll improve your knowledge through unique insight, straight talking explanation and most importantly, any judgement will be left at the door.

With the help of renowned medical practitioners and professors from around the world, Unlearn to Learn will untangle the myths and misconceptions around obesity, busting myths and using science and data to give you the facts you need.

from UMich’s School of Public Health, In this episode, we’re exploring the impact of weight-centric perspectives on public health. Kendrin Sonneville, an associate professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, is working against a status quo that focuses on weight as a primary indicator of health. She sheds light on the historical basis of weight bias and walks us through why some of our most relied-upon measures, like the Body Mass Index (BMI), are not useful health indicators. Sonneville hopes deemphasizing weight in public health discussions can help combat poor health outcomes relating to weight stigma.

What can we do better for our wellbeing? We begin with body image. Welcome to our quest to learn from women around the world.

Scaachi Koul and Sophia Smith Galer hear from St. Lucia and Malta. Historian and artist Fiona Compton describes what she says is the outspoken and complimentary nature of St Lucian society, where different body types are admired. Journalist Giulia Magri explains how “small island syndrome”, immigration and the LGBTQ community impact the way women relate to their bodies in Malta.

Martin, A. (2017, August 16). 49 States Legally Allow Employers to Discriminate Based on Weight. TIME. https://time.com/4883176/weight-discrimination-workplace-laws/

Charlesworth, T. E. S., & Banaji, M. R. (2019, August 2). Research: How Americans’ biases are changing (or not) over time. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2019/08/research-on-many-issues-americans-biases-are-decreasing

LaMendola, B. (2018, Oct 9) “Some OB-GYNs in South Florida Turn Away Overweight Women,” Sun Sentinel, https://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-xpm-2011-05-16-fl-hk-no-obesity-doc-20110516-story.html

Martin, “Weight Discrimination is Legal in 49 States”; Rachel La Corte, “Washington Court: Obesity Covered by Antidiscrimination Law,” Seattle Times, July 12th, 2019, https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-court-obesity-covered-by-antidiscrimination-law.

Friedman, C., Feldner, H., & VanPuymbrouck, L. (2022). Anti-fat biases of occupational and physical therapy assistants. Occupational therapy in health care, 36(1), 63–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/07380577.2021.1972380

Friedman, C., & VanPuymbrouck, L. H. (2019). Anti-fat bias of occupational therapy students. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 3(4), 6. https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2019.030406

Daníelsdóttir, S., O'Brien, K. S., & Ciao, A. (2010). Anti-fat prejudice reduction: a review of published studies. Obesity facts, 3(1), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1159/000277067

Alperin, A., Hornsey, M. J., Hayward, L. E., Diedrichs, P. C., & Barlow, F. K. (2014). Applying the contact hypothesis to anti-fat attitudes: Contact with overweight people is related to how we interact with our bodies and those of others. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 123, 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.051

Crandall, C. S., D’Anello, S., Sakalli, N., Lazarus, E., Nejtardt, G. W., & Feather, N. T. (2001). An Attribution-Value Model of Prejudice: Anti-Fat Attitudes in Six Nations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(1), 30–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167201271003

Meadows, A., & Higgs, S. (2022). Challenging oppression: A social identity model of stigma resistance in higher-weight individuals. Body Image, 42, 237–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.06.004

Neumark-Sztainer, D., Wall, M., Story, M., & Standish, A. R. (2012). Dieting and unhealthy weight control behaviors during adolescence: Associations with 10-year changes in body mass index. The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 50(1), 80–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.05.010

Saab, J., & Salvatore, S. P. (2015). Evaluating the cause of death in obese individuals: A ten-year medical autopsy study. Journal of Obesity, 2015, 695374. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/695374

Alegria Drury, C. A., & Louis, M. (2002). Exploring the association between body weight, stigma of obesity, and health care avoidance. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 14(12), 554–561. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2002.tb00089.x

Sagi-Dain, L., Echar, M., & Paska-Davis, N. (2021). How to talk with patients about weight? Viewpoints of 1,697 individuals with overweight and obesity. Patient Education and
Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2021.09.031

Schvey, N. A., Puhl, R. M., Levandoski, K. A., & Brownell, K. D. (2013). The influence of a defendant’s body weight on perceptions of guilt. International Journal of Obesity, 37(9), 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2012.211

Zhu, X. , Smith, R. A. & Buteau, E. (2022). A Meta-Analysis of Weight Stigma and Health Behaviors. Stigma and Health, 7(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000352.

Crandall C. S. (1994). Prejudice against fat people: ideology and self-interest. Journal of personality and social psychology, 66(5), 882–894. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.66.5.882

Rosenbaum, D. L. (2024). A randomized controlled trial of a reading-based weight bias intervention. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 57(8), 1725–1734. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24228

Berge, J. M., Trofholz, A., Danner, C., Brandenburg, D., Pusalavidyasagar, S., & Loth, K. (2023). Weight- and health-focused conversations in racially/ethnically diverse households with and without a child with overweight/obesity. Stigma and Health, 8(2), 139–149. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000268

Pearl, R. L., & Puhl, R. M. (2018). Weight bias internalization and health: a systematic review. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 19(8), 1141–1163. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12701

Sutin, A. R., Stephan, Y., & Terracciano, A. (2015). Weight discrimination and risk of mortality. Psychological Science, 26(11), 1803–1811. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615601103

Barnes, R. D., & Lawson, J. L. (2024). Weight stigma and binge eating related to poorer perceptions of healthcare provider interaction quality in a community-based sample. Journal of Eating Disorders, 12(1), 128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-024-01093-x

Wellman, J. D., Araiza, A. M., Newell, E. E., & McCoy, S. K. (2018). Weight stigma facilitates unhealthy eating and weight gain via fear of fat. Stigma and health, 3(3), 186–194. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000088

Meadows, A., & Daníelsdóttir, S. (2016). What’s in a word? On weight stigma and terminology. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1527. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01527

Hollmann, E., Farrell, E., Le Roux, C., Nadglowski, J., & McGillicuddy, D. (2024) “Treated as second class citizens” - the lived experience of obesity-related stigma: an IMI2 SOPHIA study. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2024.2344232