Fat shaming linked to greater health risks

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9779.html

by upen • 9 years ago

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AtheistPUA• 9 years ago

This is a "no-brainer" as they say. If you're getting "fat shamed", this means you are probably "fat", and thus are much more prone to health risks. Case closed.

grzm3• 9 years ago

The claim is stronger than that: the shaming itself plays a role independent of other factors. From the article:

The team … found that, above and beyond the effects of body mass index (BMI) and depression, higher levels of weight bias internalization were associated with increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

cocktailpeanuts4• 9 years ago

I can't believe people are wasting their life on earth doing these types of research. I am not saying fat shaming is good. The point is, this "research" is factually incorrect and only shows how narrow minded these people are. These people should travel the world more and see how people from other culture think and live, before making these bullshit assumptions and just writing a paper that rationalizes their own made up hypothesis.

Here's an excerpt from this article:

"“We are finding it has quite the opposite effect. When people feel shamed because of their weight, they are more likely to avoid exercise and consume more calories to cope with this stress. In this study, we identified a significant relationship between the internalization of weight bias and having a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome, which is a marker of poor health.”"

I have lived in multiple cultures and I know for a fact that in many countries where "fat shaming" is not politically incorrect, people tend to fat shame others all the time, and as a result people try to stay thin so they don't get made fun of. This of course also has its drawbacks since people are always stressed out about their looks, etc. but I'm just talking about fact. Fat shaming, in many contexts, do cause people to exercise more and eat less. This is literally what these people talk about in their everyday lives. And this is why you never see any fat people in some cultures.

The reason why these people came to this false conclusion was probably because:

1. They started out with a wrong hypothesis (because that was their agenda to begin with) and just looked for evidence to back up that theory.

2. They have never talked to actual people about their own research and just wasted their time doing these esoteric research in their labs.

3. They examined "159 adults". 159 people to come to this conclusion, are you kidding me?

4. USA, which values political correctness, is a completely different environment than rest of the world where there are a lot of other factors. These people should get rid of the thinking that America is the center of the world and meet the world and do their research with an open mind. And when i say open mind, I mean they should acknowledge the fact that "politically correctness" is also a subjective thing.

p.s.

And like parent said, if you're fat, you ARE unhealthy already. I think there's a problem with a culture that gives the illusion that it is OK to be fat. Of course it's not nice to make fun of others for ANYTHING, but Fat is fat, and fat is unhealthy. Nothing changes that.

cooper12• 9 years ago

I'm pretty sure this thread is getting brigaded. Two new accounts with usernames like "AtheistPUA" (which stands for pickup artist [0]) and "truthexposer" who both espouse fat-shaming, with the latter explicitly calling woman fat, and neither demonstrating that they have read the article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_community

andrew_wc_brown• 9 years ago

This is the link to the article in full detail with citation. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21716/full The citiations is linked to a website where I could not gain access.

Here are my critisims:

* 178 people from one community is too small of a data sample. * The majority were black older women so there could be cultral/racial bias * They do not state the details of their 'weight-loss program' so we can't scrutize its effectiveness. * They don't even shame the patients, they just measure their mood.

I was really hoping they were going to make participants walk the street naked as people say "Shame, Shame, Shame." and the measure the affect.

I hear Japan has a fat tax and it works. Japanese companies can be taxed for having fat employees.

sonnyhe2002• 9 years ago

This article makes a broad statement which is bad. It loosely links research done that is not about fat shaming and uses fat shaming in its propaganda. Even if fat shaming makes the fat person less healthy, mayhap the shame will deter the rest of the population from being fat, and therefore have an overall benefit. We can see this in asian countries where being fatty is not advertised like it is in the western world.

Fat shaming linked to greater health risks

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