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The Obesity Epidemic

You're Wrong About

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Is It OK to Hire Fat People?

There's only one state that prohibits discrimination on the basis of weight, legal to fire people for gaining weight. A texas hospital famously just posted ads that said, we don't hire fat people. Most state anti bullying efforts, like school bbullying effort, states have anti bullying policies. None of them mention weight, even the really number one reason people get bullyed. And it's really difficult for civil society to form around this issue because of internalized stigma.

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