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Fat Stigma

Skinny-People Only Speed Dating Is Back

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2013 | Women
Read More: Skinny Minny Speed Dating, Fat Prejudice, Skinny Mini, Rachel Rabbit White, On Speed Dating Skinny Minny, Fat Stigma, Sizism, Speed Dating, On Speed Dating, Fat Discrimination, Skinny Mini Speed Dating, Women News

Speed-dating events for skinny people exist -- and journalist Rachel Rabbit White attended one undercover. In April, White went to one of On Speed ...

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Let's Talk About Fat, Let's Talk About What You Think of Me

Maurice Tracy | Posted 05.09.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fat, Fatphobia, Body Image, Stigma, Fat Stigma, Fat Phobia, Fat Shaming, Obesity America, Discrimination, Obesity, Weight, Fat-Shaming, Healthy Living News
Maurice Tracy

America hates fat people. There, I said it. I'll say it again: America hates fat people. We make America feel uncomfortable. We require attention. You cannot ignore us as we walk down a street, or sit in our car, or dare to enter a mall.

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Fat Makes Men Look Powerful, Claims A Man

Nina Bahadur | Posted 05.04.2013 | Women
Read More: Fat and Power, Power Paunch, Powerful Men, Body Esteem, Fat Men, Body Image, Male Body Image, Fat, Bodies and Power, Fat Makes Men Powerful, Fat Stigma, Fat Acceptance, Fat Discrimination, Fat Empowerment, Women News
Nina Bahadur

The message: having a body is never easy, never okay. Being attractive is, at least until childbirth, the female body's main job. As RuPaul put it, 'Girl, you better work.'

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The Label That Worsens Weight Stigma

The Huffington Post | Nina Bahadur | Posted 03.15.2013 | Women
Read More: Weight Stigma, Food Addict, Food Addiction, Obesity Stigma, Fat Stigma, Addiction Study, Women News

The stigma attached to food addiction is not as strong as the stigma attached to other addictions such as alcoholism or drug abuse, according to a new...

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LOOK: The Bravest Woman We've Met This Week

The Huffington Post | Nina Bahadur | Posted 02.12.2013 | Women
Read More: Photography, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Fat Acceptance, Haley Morris-Cafiero Wait Watchers, Fat Stigma, Fat Shaming, Weight Stigma, Women and Food, Obesity, Wait Watchers, Women News

The idea that people might be staring at you in public and judging you on your weight is something most of us fear. For photographer Haley Morris-Cafi...

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The Key To Solving The Obesity Epidemic?

Linda Bacon, Ph.D., MA, MA | Posted 05.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fat Bias, Mental Health, War on Obesity, National Association for Fat Acceptance, Childhood Obesity, Obesity Stigma, Obesity Problem, Obesity, Fat Stigma, Fat Acceptance, Personal Health, Association for Size Diversity and Health, Fight Against Obesity, Weight Loss, Health at Every Size, Healthy Living News
Linda Bacon, Ph.D., MA, MA

Does it ever seem like you're hearing the same things about weight over and over? Witnessing the depressing cycle of failed public initiatives and fruitless personal efforts to trim our waistlines, who wouldn't wish for a more hopeful angle or some alternative facts on the old story?

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Too Overweight For Medical Care?

Christine Ferguson | Posted 08.10.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Obesity Epidemic, Overweight Medical Care, Healthy Living Body, Fat Stigma, Women's Health, Primary Care Denial, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News
Christine Ferguson

More than 60 percent of American women are considered overweight. That's a lot of people to exclude from medical treatment.

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