Abigail Saguy – "Weight-Based Stigma and Bullying"

Our national “obesity epidemic” is spawning disease, shortening life spans and bankrupting our health care system. Or is it? Could our negative attitudes about fatness-a disease that people bring upon themselves through sloth and gluttony-be more hazardous to our mental and physical well being than excess weight? Huffington Post covers the full story

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