Posts Tagged ‘internalized weight bias’

Tommy Tomlinson in Childhood

Facing Obesity: Unarmed in a Rock Fight

January 12, 2019 — In a most compelling way, Tommy Tomlinson describes his lifetime of experiences facing obesity: Losing weight is a f***ing rock fight. The enemies come from all sides: The deluge of marketing telling us to eat worse and eat more. The culture that has turned food into one of the last acceptable vices. Our families and […]

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New Research: Too Much Internal Weight Bias

October 30, 2017 — A new study published today in Obesity tells us that one in five adults are carrying a heavy burden – internal weight bias. Rebecca Puhl will be presenting these results at ObesityWeek on Wednesday. In their research, Puhl and colleagues studied internalized weight bias in a total of 3,504 U.S. adults. While 20% of the […]