Weight stigma impacts negatively healthcare quality and hinders public health goals. The
aim of this review was to identify strategies for minimizing weight bias among healthcare …

Current healthcare is weight‐centric, equating weight and health. This approach to
healthcare has negative consequences on patient well‐being. The aim of this article is to …

Background Weight stigma is pervasive across the US and is associated with poor health
outcomes including all-cause mortality. One potential reason that weight stigma may be …

Weight discrimination is a well-established risk factor for disordered eating cognitions and
behaviors. However, little is known about what may account for this association. Recent …

Converging evidence from both animal and human studies have implicated hedonic eating
as a driver of both binge eating and obesity. The construct of food addiction has been used …

but the advent of new weight loss drugs in the 1990s accelerated the medicalization of BMI.
A BMI category labeled obesity was adopted in 1997 by a World Health Organization …

The role of stress, trauma, and adversity particularly early in life has been identified as a
contributing factor in both drug and food addictions. While links between traumatic stress …

Background/objectives Obesity is often considered to increase the risk for premature
mortality. Higher fasting insulin and c-reactive protein are associated with higher body mass …

Public health campaigns that explicitly or implicitly stigmatize higher-weight individuals are
proliferating. Underlying this trend is an assumption that weight stigma can promote …

Several studies have examined acceptance and commitment therapy's (ACT) effectiveness
for addressing physical and psychological distress people with obesity can face …