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#780 Deborah Carr: Obesity, Disability, Healthcare, and Aging in America

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The Role of Height in Obesity and Overweight

There are a lot of different factors in body weight is one it's really important but you're absolutely right there are other dimensions of bodies that we judge more or less positively. We need to recognize that stigmatizing people on the basis of weight can actually make their physical health worse and this is something I've published on with some of my co-authors. If we make people feel bad about your body weight they'll stop going to the doctor who would go to a health care provider that's only going to tell them you got to drop the pounds right.

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