The fat acceptance movement promotes the ... Understanding the causes and effects of social stigma can be a starting point.

Weight stigma doesn’t have to be malicious or targeted directly at a person to cause harm. Fat microaggressions lead to poorer health, well-being and life outcomes among fat people.

For women in China, a phrase like "How can you be this fat?" is thrown around just as ... yet it captures the social stigma attached to being overweight in China. When I was growing up in China ...

But many women admitted they would only do so secretly to avoid the ‘stigma’ surrounding weight loss that was not the result of diet and exercise alone. Of those taking them, one in five (19 ...

It is true that high levels of body fat can cause it to infiltrate organs such ... could even help to reduce the stigma surrounding the condition. “The hope is that defining obesity in a more ...