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

BACKGROUND: In an era when obesity prevalence is high throughout much of the world, there is a correspondingly pervasive and strong culture of weight stigma. For example, representative studies show that some forms of weight discrimination are more prevalent even than discrimination based on race or...

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Autores principales: Tomiyama, A. Janet, Carr, Deborah, Granberg, Ellen M., Major, Brenda, Robinson, Eric, Sutin, Angelina R., Brewis, Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6092785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30107800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5