The Importance of Weight-Related Discrimination and Adverse Health Outcomes

There's tons of data showing pretty clear associations between discrimination and adverse health outcomes. This could relate to cardiovascular risks, psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and even mortality. The association between weight-related discrimination and poor outcomes seems to be higher than discrimination based on other variables. And so ultimately, this stigma has, you know, it's obviously not great.

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