Everland, now 48, says that medical weight bias has impacted her throughout her entire life, causing her to delay ...

Patients with obesity often report being shamed and stigmatized in medical settings. How can physicians address weight sensitively?

When a patient with obesity reports a new symptom, many physicians are quick to focus on the excess weight without exploring alternative reasons. Wrong approach, experts said.

Smith joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss the financial impact that can have on overweight workers, and what companies and lawmakers are doing to address weight bias at work. Illustration ...

She writes that there is “considerable evidence of the adverse health effects” of being subjected to social stigma and having ...

This perspective is backed by research on weight bias and stigma. A 2023 research review found that people who encounter negative attitudes about weight and apply those attitudes to themselves ...

How many people experience weight bias? Created with Sketch. Forty-two percent of American adults reported experiencing weight stigma at least once, according to a study published in The ...

The results indicated that some weight bias was present, although Schwartz noted that health professionals were not as biased as the general public. So where does that leave the patient hoping to ...

But we cannot ignore the broader cultural context in which these choices are being made—a context steeped in fatphobia, weight bias in medical care, and the fantasy of control. And we cannot ...

Since 2018, Tovar has covered weight bias and how it affects work, media, fashion, and beyond as a Forbes.com contributor. She is the author of You Have the Right to ...