What our society has taught us about fat people: OMG, fat people are stalking the streets in search of thin people to gobble up! Once they catch them, the fatties suck what little fat The Thins (TM) have through a straw pierced into their belly buttons! Their appetites and depravity know no bounds, and due to their deplorable behaviour, they are "heart attacks waiting to happen"!!!!!! Of course, I am exaggerating there, but should we be worried that if we live in a fat body we are probably gonna die imminently? Is there any truth to the hyperbolic headlines featuring images of headless fatties? Let’s talk about it in this episode.
TW: O Words, health, and weight correlations, health-promoting behaviours, death from medical fatphobia.
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Links:
Study Shows Link Between Discrimination and Type 2 Diabetes: https://danceswithfat.org/2017/05/11/study-shows-link-between-discrimination-and-type-2-diabetes/
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift: https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9
The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386473/
Experiences of Discrimination and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA): https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/186/4/445/3603583?login=true
Relationship between low cardiorespiratory fitness and mortality in normal-weight, overweight, and obese men: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10546694/
Healthy lifestyle habits and mortality in overweight and obese individuals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22218619/
Stigma in Practice: Barriers to Health for Fat Women: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201160/
Medical fatphobia stories: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/lijukc/i_lost_75_pounds_so_doctors_would_stop_blaming/
Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is, Lindo Bacon: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fat-is-not-the-problem-fat-stigma-is/
Perceived and Actual Discrimination in the Salaries of Male and Female Managers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1990.tb00377.x
Obesity Discrimination in the Recruitment Process: “You’re Not Hired!”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853419/
Weight Bias in Work Settings – a Qualitative Review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6452122/
Is Fat Phobia in Medicine Harming Doctors and Patients? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/let-food-be-thy-medicine/202008/is-fat-phobia-in-medicine-harming-doctors-and-patients
Weight Bias and Stigma: Public Health Implications and Structural Solutions: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5afd1266fcf7fd79fc9837b4/t/5c841887e2c48349ec723cc2/1552160904182/weight+bias+and+stigma+-+public+health+implications.pdf