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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: weight + obesity + bias  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Report: Obese workers as effective as thin ones
Detroit Free Press, United States - Jul 22, 2008
... prohibit obesity discrimination in the workplace, and Massachusetts is looking into similar legislation. A 1999 study by Roehling indicated weight bias ...

Natchez Democrat
Mississippi rated most obese state
Natchez Democrat, MS - Jul 26, 2008
In a recently published study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mississippi burst through as the top state for obesity. ...
Obesity and your child's health
Tampa Bay's 10, FL - Jul 24, 2008
In addition, extra weight can raise the heart rate and reduce the body's ability to transport blood through the vessels. Diabetes - Obesity is the major ...
Low-carb and Mediterranean diets beat low-fat for weight-loss ...
TheHeart.Org, NY - Jul 16, 2008
Westman also points out that a decades-old bias against the possibility of higher-fat diets having any benefits to them has hampered research. ...
Maternal Diabetes and Obesity Linked to Type 2 Diabetes in Youth
Medscape (subscription) - Jul 16, 2008
Study limitations include potential recall bias or selection bias. "Intrauterine exposures to maternal diabetes and obesity are strongly associated with ...
Is Fat the New Black?
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 9, 2008
Rebecca Puhl, who heads community and weight stigma initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, says that where other bias taboos ...
A Clinical Nutrition Course to Improve Pharmacy Students' Skills ...
RedOrbit, TX - Jul 30, 2008
Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) identified overweight and obesity as 1 of 10 leading health indicators.1 The overarching goal of this national health agenda is ...
Fructose Intake Has Increased to More Than 10% of Daily Energy in ...
Medscape (subscription) - Jul 9, 2008
In an accompanying editorial, George A. Bray, MD, chief of clinical obesity and metabolism at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, ...
Larger Patients Seek Less Lecturing, Better Health Care
Newswise (press release) - Jul 7, 2008
The bias can also be less obvious, Jeani says. ?I can tell when somebody is not happy to be around me. Some doctors were uncomfortable touching me. ...
Research News: Can Exceptional Longevity be Predicted?
Methuselah Foundation, DC - Jul 14, 2008
These biological findings are consistent with recent studies on the adverse effects of obesity on human health and survival in later life. ...
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Weight Bias among Health Professionals Specializing in Obesity -
MB Schwartz, HON Chambliss, KD Brownell, SN Blair, … - Obesity Research, 2003 - NAASO
... Discussion: Even professionals whose careers emphasize research or the clinical
management of obesity show very strong weight bias, indicating pervasive and ...

Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity -
R Puhl, KD Brownell - Obesity Research, 2001 - NAASO
... for obese individuals will improve as bias decreases ... Some health care professionals
perceive obesity to be a ... them for their inability to lose weight performs a ...

Birth Weight and Adult Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, and Obesity in US Men -
GC Curhan, WC Willett, EB Rimm, D Spiegelman, AL … - Circulation, 1996 - Am Heart Assoc
... recall is unlikely because the association between birth weight and hypertension,
diabetes, and obesity has only recently been reported. Detection bias also is ...

Bias in reported body weight as a function of education, occupation, health and weight concern -
RW Jeffery - Addictive Behaviors, 1996 - Elsevier
... Accuracy and bias in self-reported weight might also differ under different assessment
conditions (eg. follow-up of individuals treated for obesity, assessment ...

… incidence of diabetes, hypertension and lipid disturbances after intentional weight loss induced by … -
CD Sjostrom - Obesity Research, 1999 - NAASO
... page R. Puhl and KD Brownell Bias, Discrimination, and ... Home page, Obesity Home page
CD Sj?str?m, M. Peltonen ... and Pulse Pressure during Long-Term Weight Loss in ...

Validity of self-reported height and weight and predictors of bias in adolescents -
FJ Elgar, C Roberts, C Tudor-Smith, L Moore - Journal of Adolescent Health, 2005 - Elsevier
... the validity of self-reported height and weight, the accuracy of screening for
overweight and obesity using these data, and the predictors of bias in self ...

Psychosocial origins of obesity stigma: toward changing a powerful and pervasive bias -
RM Puhl, KD Brownell - Obesity Reviews, 2003 - Blackwell Synergy
... Stigma reduction. The increasing prevalence of obesity has not reduced weight
bias. We often hear opinions that stigma may actually ...

UNDERESTIMATION OF RELATIVE WEIGHT BY USE OF SELF-REPORTED HEIGHT AND WEIGHT -
AW STEWART, RT JACKSON, MA FORD, R BEAGLEHOLE - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1987 - Oxford Univ Press
... who un- derestimated their relative weight more than other ... and classifi- cation of
the syndromes of obesity. ... Bias due to misclassification in the estimation of ...

… and state-level obesity in the USA after correction for self-report bias: analysis of health … -
M Ezzati, H Martin, S Skjold, SV Hoorn, CJL Murray - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2006 - Royal Soc Med
... US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while acknowledging the bias
in self-reported weight and height, presents state-level obesity levels and ...

Do Parents Discriminate Against their Heavyweight Daughters? -
CS Crandall - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995 - psp.sagepub.com
... Home page RM Puhl, CA Moss-Racusin, and MB Schwartz Internalization of Weight Bias:
Implications for Binge Eating and Emotional Well-being Obesity, January 1 ...

Source: Google Scholar

Weight Bias Threatens Obese Children's Health And Quality Of Life
Overweight children who are stigmatized by peers and their parents and teachers sustain profound and potentially lasting harm, according to a paper by scientists from Yale and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa.

"Weight-based discrimination is as important a problem as racial discrimination or discrimination against children with physical disabilities," the authors write in the July issue of Psychological Bulletin. "Remedying it needs to be taken equally seriously if we are to protect the emotional and physical well-being of our nation's children."
The study analyzes published research gathered from psychological, medical, social science, and educational databases. Over 100 studies were included that offered evidence on the associations between obesity, stigma (e.g., teasing, victimization, and prejudice of obese youth) and a variety of negative consequences that included social exclusion, low self esteem, reduced academic and earning potential, avoidance of physical activity, eating disorders, and even suicide.

Among some of the more striking findings highlighted were:

-- Adolescents teased about their weight are two-to-three times more likely to report suicidal ideation than their peers.

-- Children as young as preschool age ascribe negative characteristics to overweight peers and reject them as potential playmates.

-- Overweight adolescents report that parents are a frequent source of weight-based teasing.

-- Youth who reported weight-based victimization are at risk for unhealthy weight control, binge eating behaviors, and avoidance of physical activity.

-- Adolescents who reported being treated unfairly because of their weight had higher blood pressure than their peers - even after controlling for weight, activity level and other factors.
While science provides extensive documentation of the extent of stigmatization, long-term health consequences of weight bias require further study, as does identifying methods to effectively reduce stigma toward youth, the authors said.

"The childhood obesity epidemic is rapidly accelerating," said lead author Rebecca Puhl of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale. "That means thousands of children in North America are at risk for serious emotional and physical health consequences that science shows are connected to weight stigma. We cannot overestimate the urgency of combating stigma."

Psychological Bulletin 133: 557-580
http://www.apa.org/journals/bul.html

http://www.yale.edu
 
 
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