Many patients with binge-eating disorder and higher body weight are self-critical due to their perceived failure to meet their goals of controlling their eating, shape, and weight: a form of negative ...

Weight stigma refers to negative attitudes, stereotypes, and discriminatory behavior directed at people because of their body size, most often toward individuals in larger bodies. Common stereotypes ...

Woman standing on a scale. (Photo by: Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A recent Lancet study of 4060 individuals reported that the pressure to lose weight from family and the ...

People who as teenagers felt pressure to lose weight from family or from the media, females, people who are not heterosexual, and people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, are most at risk of ...

Physical activity was not a mediating factor in the association between internalized weight stigma reduction and weight loss. The addition of a weight stigma intervention to a behavioral weight loss ...

Mental health stigma is a widespread issue that affects everyone, regardless of their background. This can include the negative attitudes and beliefs we hold towards ourselves, as well as the ones ...

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Researchers conducted a community-based study to determine the added value of age, years living with HIV, and gender together with general and internalized stigma in predicting symptoms of depression ...