It has been said that obese persons are the last acceptable targets of discrimination. 1–4
Anecdotes abound about overweight individuals being ridiculed by teachers, physicians …

Discrimination based on body shape and size remains commonplace in today's society. This
important volume explores the nature, causes, and consequences of weight bias and …

Objective: Limited data are available on the prevalence and patterns of body weight
discrimination from representative samples. This study examined experiences of …

Weight bias is a form of stigma with detrimental effects on the health and wellness of
individuals with large bodies. Researchers from various disciplines have recognized weight …

History teaches that discrimination against socially undesirable groups leads to societal and
governmental neglect of the stigmatized group's health problem. By placing weight …

Objective: Little is known about the prevalence and patterns of weight discrimination in the
United States. This study examined the trends in perceived weight/height discrimination …

Weight discrimination is the unjust treatment of individuals because of their weight. There
have been very few interventions to address weight discrimination, due in part to the lack of …

In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public
health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant" fat talk" aimed at …

Policy Points: Policies and legal protections against weight‐based discrimination have
broad public support in 4 nations where this discrimination is widely documented. Public …

LEANNE JOANISSE and ANTHONY SYNNOTT ince the early 1950s, obesity has been
claimed by some to be America's foremost health problem (Bennett and Gurin 1982) …