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Weight Discrimination Worsens Health For Overweight People

A study released last week suggests that society is biased toward overweight people. Here's the theory behind how it works: The higher your body-mass index, the more likely you are to think that you've been a  victim of weight discrimination. And the more you believe you suffer from weight discrimination, the more your health suffers. Researchers from Purdue University backed this up by analyzing data from 1,856 participants in the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. The researchers found that the heavier people got, the more likely they were to feel they had been victims of weight discrimination. Click here to read more.
 
 



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