Title: Influence of weight etiology information and trainee characteristics on physician-trainees’ clinical and interpersonal communication Authors: Cohen, Persky Source: Patient Education and Counseling, 2019, 102: 1644–1649. Link to paper Super-quick summary: Student doctors read an article about behavioural or genetic…
Is the War on Obesity making us sick? An alternative perspective on fat and health When: Tuesday, 4th December, 2-3.30pm (refreshments from 1.30) Where: Washington Singer Building, Rm 219. Cost: Free, but please register via link below. Details: Could it…
A wonderful blog post on weight stigma from a male perspective. On microaggressions, intersectionality, and privilege. Reblogged from the ASDAH blog For more information and resources from ASDAH (Association for Size Diversity and Health), visit https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/ Click here to read…
The City of Reykjavik has just added body size to the list of characteristics that must be used as a means of overt or unintentional discrimination in its Human Rights Policy. This fantastic news comes as a result of the…
As a stigma researcher and advocate I sometimes think I’ve seen it all. apparently not. Esquire have published a column by Giles Coren called “I Don’t Care What My Son Becomes… As Long As He Isn’t Overweight.” That sounds bad,…
I recently read an interesting enough piece on The Conversation about why taller humans tend to die earlier. One of the threads the author pursued was that of caloric restriction. There is some evidence from animal studies and from populations…
Title: Association between weight bias internalization and metabolic syndrome among treatment-seeking individuals with obesity Authors: Pearl, Wadden, Hopkins, Shaw, Hayes, Bakizada, Alfaris, Chao, Pinkasavage, Berkowitz, Alamuddin Source: Obesity (2017) Vol 25, pp 317–322. Link to article Super-quick summary: High-weight individuals who internalise weight stigma…
Title: Association between weight control failure and suicidal ideation in overweight and obese adults: a cross-sectional study Authors: Ju, Han, Lee, Kim, Park, and Park Source: BMC Public Health. Epub 23 Nov 2015. Link to free full text Super-quick summary: A cross-sectional study…
One of the difficulties of working at the interface of the Social Justice Movement and Everyone Else is the use of language. A little over a week ago, an anti-stigma advocate who is situated within the medical paradigm wrote a blog…
In the news today is a shocking story of a fight that broke out between two 16-year-old schoolboys in a school lunchroom. One of the boys ended up dead after being stabbed in the heart. Most of the news coverage…
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