… The dominant construction of obesity means that the problem is always deflected back to
individuals, who are seen to have specific deficiencies and to lack knowledge about what to eat…

… responds, “I’m going to go out and kill myself.” Lucy, who had gained weight since marrying
… by constructions of the “obesity epidemic,” or understandings of fatness as a global health …

… challenges of our age”—another nominalizing construction which discursively collapses the
… underpin obesity into a “health challenge”—a “great” one at that—and one that is owned (our…

… an attempt to understand what obesity is as a social construct and how it relates to … obesity
as a diagnosis: 1. Physicians’ professional definitions of and organization around obesity …

… Perceptions related to why obesity is and is not a … impact, and defeatism due to misaligned
expectation and outcome. In conclusion, people living with obesity tend to agree obesity is a …

… , meaning that I will live with obesity for the rest of my life. Right now, … Fat is not killing you. It
is the internalized weight bias and … How can obesity be a social construction? Whether it is a …

… and critiquing obesity epidemic thinking, we refer to our work … (a) the social construction of
an obesity epidemic depends on … words, such as obesity, are a necessary part of our empirical …

… social structures (eg socio-economic status and ethnicity), which appear to be more significant
for health … and valorizing “healthy” eating as proposed in the “Quebec Healthy Food Table…

… Our article explores orthorexia nervosa (ON)—an extreme … with healthy eating—from a
social construction perspective. Interviews with people self-identified as “obsessed” with healthy …

… how media frames of obesity are not universal but … and social structures which can, in turn,
influence the development and implementation of social policies relating to obesity and health(…