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Language can carry blame and stigma, not motivate people to lose weight

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Language can carry blame and stigma, not motivate people to lose weight

Friday 7 June 2019, 01:35 PM
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Language can carry blame and stigma, not motivate people to lose weight
"Stigmatising language doesn’t promote anybody to lose weight – it makes us feel worse about ourselves, if anything" Many health professionals an
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Hales C, Gray L, MacDonald C, et al. Dissonance in naming adiposity: a quantitative survey of naming preferences from a convenience sample of health professional and lay population in Aotearoa New Zealand. NZ Med J 2019;132,1496:20–30.
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Tomiyama AJ, Carr D, Granberg EM et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. BMC Medicine 2018;16:123 (online 15 August 2018).
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