#101 - Worried about being called fat? Anticipated weight stigma harms health with Dr. Angela Meadows, PhD

Weight stigma, problems with our culture and the biases we carry
about higher weight people harms their health. One pathway is
through internalized stigma that elevates a person’s worry and
anxiety about how they will be treated by the people and the
physical spaces in this world (think comfortable seats - or the
right to sit!) Founder of the International Weight Stigma
Conference, Dr. Angela Meadows and I discuss.


About Angela
Angela Meadows, Ph.D. is a health and social psychologist
specializing in the relationship between experienced and
internalized weight stigma and health and wellbeing in
higher-weight individuals. She is particularly interested in
determinants of response to stigma - why some people internalise
negative beliefs whereas others resist devaluation. She has
published a number of articles and book chapters and has been
interviewed by numerous media outlets internationally. She writes
on issues around weight and health for print and digital media.
In 2013, she founded the Annual International Weight Stigma
Conference.


Website: Never Diet Again | Angela's academic website | Twitter |
Facebook


Links mentioned


Angela's Huffington Post articles

Angela's articles on The Conversation

Research study: Relationship between low cardiorespiratory
fitness and mortality in normal-weight, overweight, and obese men
(JAMA)

Research study: Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence
for a Paradigm Shift (Nutrition Journal)



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