The Very Real Consequences of Weight Discrimination

Weight discrimination has very real health consequences, especially when some of the most common perpetrators are medical professionals. Check out Ours Poetica:    / ourspoetica   Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: Is obesity stigmatizing...in the United States (2005) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/... The stigma of obesity: does perceived weight discrimination affect identity and physical health? (2011) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full... Does this Tweet make me look fat? A content analysis of weight stigma on Twitter (2016) https://link.springer.com/article/10.... How and why weight stigma drives the obesity epidemic and harms health (2018) https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com... Obesity, perceived weight discrimination and hair cortisol: a population based study (2018) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Weight bias internalization and health: a systemic review (2018) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...