The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update

By R. Puhl, Chelsea A. Heuer. Obesity, 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Surgery

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The global childhood obesity epidemic and the association between socio-economic status and childhood obesity (2012, background): “…risk, predominately using cross-sectional survey data collected in various population groups across different countries (Beydoun & Wang., 2009; McLaren, 2007; Monteiro et al., 2004; Puhl & Heuer, 2009; Shrewsbury & Wardle, 2008; Sobal & Stunkard, 1989; Wang & Zhang, 2006; Zhang & Wang, 2004, 2007).”
Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity (2015, background): “Obesity is a commonly and strongly stigmatized characteristic (12,13).”
The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas (2019, background): “Weight-based disparities are well documented in employment, healthcare, education, and interpersonal outcomes [115, 116].”
Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “Body Size Stereotyping in Preschool Children In westernized societies, fatness is highly stigmatized whereas thinness is generally glorified (Crandall 1994; Puhl and Heuer 2009).”
Body Norms and Fat Stigma in Global Perspective (2011, background): “…moral judgments, as the key to shaping social stigma (Goffman 1986 [1963]), maps well onto the high rates of enacted and felt prejudice reported by the fatter members of society in places such as the United States (Janssen et al. 2004; Puhl and Heuer 2009; Sjöberg, Nilsson, and Leppert 2005).”
The phenomenology of weight stigma in everyday life (2014, background): “Obese people are frequently presented in stereotypical roles and are targets of ridicule, and obesity itself is often portrayed as resulting from personal shortcomings, such as being lazy or overindulgent (Ata & Thompson, 2010; Puhl & Heuer, 2009).”
The ironic effects of weight stigma (2014, background): “Overweight individuals are often portrayed in the media as lazy, weak willed, and self-indulgent (Puhl & Heuer, 2009), and as a drain on the nation's resources (Begley, 2012).”
Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity (2018, background): “Failure to achieve and maintain substantial weight loss over the long term is then simply attributed to poor adherence to the prescribed lifestyle changes, thereby potentially further stigmatizing the patient as lacking in willpower, motivation, or fortitude to lose weight.(25) It is now known that ”
Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity (2020, background): “Both observational and randomizedcontrolled studies show that these strategies can result in the opposite effect, and may instead induce exercise avoidance, consumption of unhealthy diets, and increased sedentary behaviors 1-3 , leading to poor metabolic health, increased weight gain 56, 57 , and re”
Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model. (2014, background): “Although it is less studied, weight stigma is in fact more socially acceptable, severe, and in some cases more prevalent than racism, sexism, and other forms of bias (Brochu & Esses, 2011; Puhl & Heuer, 2009).”
Leaks, Lumps, and Lines (2011, background): “…from store clerks (King, Shapiro, Hebl, Singletary, & Turner, 2006), and that is only one of many such studies showing discrimination against heavyweight people in employment, college admissions, housing rentals, and health care settings (see Puhl & Heuer, 2009, and Rothblum, 1992, for reviews).”
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (2011, background): “Stigmatization and bias on the part of health care practitioners is welldocumented, resulting in lower quality care [139,140].”