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The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease
BACKGROUND: It is commonly believed that the pathophysiology of obesity arises from adiposity. In this paper, I forward a complementary explanation; this pathophysiology arises not from adiposity alone, but also from the psychological stress induced by the social stigma associated with being obese....
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BioMed Central
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-128 |