• Social stigma of obesity is broadly defined as bias or discriminatory behaviors targeted at overweight and obese individuals because of their weight and...
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  • The social stigma of obesity, can be defined as the systemic oppression of and discrimination against people who may be considered overweight, obese, or...
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    liberation, and fat activism) is a social movement which seeks to eliminate the social stigma of obesity. Areas of contention include the aesthetic, legal...
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    Obese". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-09-28. Fee, Holly R.; Nusbaumer, Michael R. (2012). "Social Distance and the Formerly Obese: Does the Stigma of Obesity...
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    Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect...
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  • Social stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them...
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    healthcare received by people who are obese. Because of the social stigma of obesity, people who are obese may receive poorer healthcare than people within...
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  • on blood pressure, fasting glucose, and triglycerides levels. Social stigma of obesity Fat acceptance movement Intuitive eating Penney, Tarra L.; Kirk...
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  • The obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox...
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  • used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut hormones,...
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  • Bariatrics (category Obesity)
    Epidemiology of obesity, epidemiology of childhood obesity Obesity and walking Social stigma of obesity Body fat percentage Relative Fat Mass (RFM) Steatosis...
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    index of social class and obesity. Children of the lowest social status had a more than three-fold risk to be obese than children of the highest social status...
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    20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic...
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    Childhood Obesity Classification of childhood obesity Obesity and the environment Social influences on fitness behavior Social stigma of obesity Sugary drink...
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  • Fat fetishism (category Obesity)
    attraction directed towards overweight or obese people due primarily to their weight and size. A variety of fat fetishism is 'feed(er)ism' or 'gaining'...
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    relationships between personality and obesity: people who are obese might be aware of the social stigma of obesity and their questionnaire responses might...
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  • classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports including rowing...
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    Overweight (redirect from Pre obese)
    a BMI of 25 or more, thus it includes pre-obesity defined as a BMI between 25 and 29.9 and obesity as defined by a BMI of 30 or more. Pre-obese and overweight...
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    (osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea, social stigma) or increased number of fat cells (diabetes, some forms of cancer, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic...
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  • values of WHtR indicate higher risk of obesity-related cardiovascular diseases; it is correlated with abdominal obesity. More than twenty-five years ago, waist-to-height...
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    mass index and measures of body fat for defining obesity and underweight: a cross-sectional, population-based study". BMC Obesity. 1: 9. doi:10.1186/2052-9538-1-9...
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  • non-obese individual. The prevalence of obesity is a worldwide problem. In 2007–2008, prevalence rates for obesity among adult American men were approximately...
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    Anti-obesity medication or weight loss medications are pharmacological agents that reduce or control excess body fat. These medications alter one of the...
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    Foundation of Canada. Archived from the original on 2011-08-25. Retrieved 2011-10-09. "Obesity: identification and classification of overweight and obesity (update)...
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    Bariatrics Obesity and walking Social stigma of obesity EPODE International Network, the world's largest obesity-prevention network World Fit A program of the...
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  • concern of postoperative opioid-induced ventilatory depression in the obese patient, opioids are best based on lean body weight. The induction dose of propofol...
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  • Obesity medicine is a field of medicine dedicated to the comprehensive treatment of patients with obesity. Obesity medicine takes into account the multi-factorial...
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  • Rebecca M.; Heuer, Chelsea A. (2009-05-01). "The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update". Obesity. 17 (5): 941–964. doi:10.1038/oby.2008.636. ISSN 1930-739X...
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  • deficit) is any shortage in the number of calories consumed relative to the number of calories needed for maintenance of current body weight (energy homeostasis)...
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  • Anti-fatphobia NGOs in the United States (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from February 2023)
    anti-fatphobia organization is an organization that works to address the social stigma of obesity. Anti-fatphobia organizations typically define themselves by their...
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