SciShow Psych: The Very Real Consequences of Weight Discrimination

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Weight discrimination has very real health consequences, especially when some of the most common perpetrators are medical professionals. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Is obesity stigmatizing...in the United States (2005) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002214650504600303?casa_token=PBVdPdFJUGUAAAAA:waQBbIyYRDYZaPv3XXukcEWvwLzU6VBxGvBE6g21jupxZELn2qxC7wFXlYSjzBn1w-KVOyMYV3M The stigma of obesity: does perceived weight discrimination affect identity and physical health? (2011) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0190272511398197 Does this Tweet make me look fat? A content analysis of weight stigma on Twitter (2016) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40519-016-0272-x How and why weight stigma drives the obesity epidemic and harms health (2018) https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5 Obesity, perceived weight discrimination and hair cortisol: a population based study (2018) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030645301830502X Weight bias internalization and health: a systemic review (2018) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.12701


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