Is Stigmatizing Fatness a Bad Thing?

Most of the things that would make you more healthy will also result in you carrying at least a little less body fat and vice versa. Fatness might not be the problem, but in practice, it might be a good enough proxy for the problem. We're seeing lots of studies about how fat people who do go to the doctor tend to get worse care. Negative social cues result in physiological stress responses that really hurt your body over time.