Abstract
Weight stigma diminishes wellbeing and contributes to inequities across multiple domains. A 2020 report by the UK eating disorder charity Beat highlighted several ways that obesity prevention public health campaigns can unintentionally amplify risk of eating disorders and exacerbate symptoms.1 This report made useful recommendations to minimise these harms and identified specific risk pathways—eg, promotion of dieting (an ineffective strategy for long-term weight loss, which also heightens risk for binge-eating behaviour), prioritising thinness in a way that falsely equates thinness with health (and correspondingly, higher weight with poor health), and engagement in weight-stigmatising actions, such as the use of body-mass index (BMI) report cards and problematic discourse in public health programming.
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