Weight stigma and health behaviors: evidence from the Eating in America Study

KM Lee, JM Hunger, AJ Tomiyama - International Journal of Obesity, 2021 - nature.com
… associations between weight stigma and four health behaviors (ie, eating behavior, alcohol
weight stigma is linked to several poor health behaviors, which may impact physical health. …

A meta-analysis of weight stigma and health behaviors.

X Zhu, RA Smith, E Buteau - Stigma and Health, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
… quantify the extent to which weight stigma affected health behaviors and their psychological
weight-based social identitythreat model, health behavior is a mediator through which weight

Associations among enacted weight stigma, weight self-stigma, and multiple physical health outcomes, healthcare utilization, and selected health behaviors

A Prunty, A Hahn, A O'Shea, S Edmonds… - International journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
… among enacted weight stigma, weight self-stigma, and multiple health outcomes. Weight
stigma, a stressor experienced across all body sizes, may contribute to poorer physical health

Weight stigma and health: The mediating role of coping responses.

MS Himmelstein, RM Puhl, DM Quinn - Health Psychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
… These findings highlight the need for additional research to identify potential mechanisms
underlying the negative effects of weight stigma on health behaviors, so that these …

Weight stigma and eating behavior: A review of the literature

LR Vartanian, AM Porter - Appetite, 2016 - Elsevier
… By developing a better understanding of the impact that weight stigma has on health
behaviors, we can work toward reducing the negative impact of those experiences and thereby …

Weight stigma as a psychosocial contributor to obesity.

RM Puhl, MS Himmelstein, RL Pearl - American Psychologist, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
weight stigma and adverse health behaviors and indices that contribute to poor weight-related
health, such as maladaptive eating behaviors, low … , physiological stress, and weight gain. …

Experiences of weight stigma in everyday life: Implications for health motivation.

LR Vartanian, RT Pinkus, JM Smyth - Stigma and Health, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
… Moving beyond self-report, there have been some recent attempts to examine the impact
of weight stigma on health behaviors in an experimental context, but experimental studies …

The impact of weight labels on body image, internalized weight stigma, affect, perceived health, and intended weight loss behaviors in normal-weight and overweight …

JH Essayli, JM Murakami, RE Wilson… - … Journal of Health …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
weight loss behaviors To examine potentially altered future behaviors as a result of the study
manipulation, 26 weight … Items reflected both healthy (eg, “increasing fruit and vegetable …

Weight stigma and diabetes stigma: implications for weight-related health behaviors in adults with type 2 diabetes

RM Puhl, MS Himmelstein, J Speight - Clinical Diabetes, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
… the implications of these forms of stigma for their health and well-being. This study examined
health behavior correlates of weight stigma and diabetes stigma in 1,227 adults with type 2 …

How and why weight stigma drives the obesity 'epidemic'and harms health

AJ Tomiyama, D Carr, EM Granberg, B Major… - BMC medicine, 2018 - Springer
… We define weight stigma as the social rejection and devaluation that accrues to those who
do not comply with prevailing social norms of adequate body weight and shape. This stigma is …