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Weight Stigma Resources

General Resources
  • Center for Body Trust resource page (Sample letters to healthcare providers/parents/schools, size-inclusive clothing brands, info on eating disorders, recommended articles (scientific and mainstream), TED talks, podcasts, and accounts to follow on social media)
  • Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) Weight neutral principles
  • Harvard Implicit Bias page for weight
  • Professional larger-bodied stock photos from Body Liberation Photos
  • Free body-inclusive movement classes from Joyn
  • Poodle Science video from ASDAH (2 min)
  • Influencers in larger bodies--these lists are two places to start:
    • ​Reddit Body Acceptance social media list
    • Body Liberation Photos social media list
Media Articles
  • The Bizarre and Racist History of BMI
  • Everything You Know About Ob*sity is Wrong
  • ​“No Health No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath” Dismantling Medical Fatphobia
  • The Racist Origins of Fatphobia
  • After the Biggest Loser, Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
  • Who Says Dieting Fails Most of the Time?
  • The Invisibility of Marginalized Folks Suffering from Eating Disorders
  • ​Fat is Not the Problem, Fat Stigma is
  • ‘GP said my symptoms were due to being overw*ight but I had ovarian cancer’: Woman, 38, describes how being fat-shamed by doctor could have killed her​
Scholarly Articles
  • Weight Stigma as a Violation of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Call to Action
  • An Evidence Based Rationale for Adopting Weight-Inclusive Health Policy (meta analysis)
  • Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overw*ight and Ob*sity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  • The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health: Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss
  • How and why weight stigma drives the ob*sity ‘epidemic’ and harms health
  • Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
  • ​Associations of weight stigma with cortisol and oxidative stress independent of adiposity
  • “But Everything Is Supposed to Get Better After Bariatric Surgery!” Understanding Postoperative Suicide and Self-injury
  • ‘Ob*sity paradox’ Misunderstands the Biology of Optimal Weight Throughout the Life Cycle
  • ​Treatment Outcomes and Trajectories of Change in Patients Attributing Their Eating Disorder Onset to Anti-ob*sity Messaging
  • Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America
  • Intersectionality: An Understudied Framework for Addressing Weight Stigma
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Stigma: Co-Occurrence and Associations with Psychological Well-Being
Podcasts/Blogs
  • Maintenance Phase podcast and transcripts
  • ​Your Fat Friend blog
  • Food Psych podcast
Books
  • Reclaiming Body Trust by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
  • The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
  • Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
  • What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
  • Body Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor
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