Weight stigma is so ingrained in popular culture that it’s often unrecognized in entertainment, news, and social media. An abundance of data provides evidence that weight stigma in popular culture contributes to poor health for people of higher body weight and reinforces weight bias and discrimination in healthcare, the workplace, educational and social settings, and even in close interpersonal relationships. Weight stigma has been described as one of the last socially acceptable forms of discrimination.
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