Although legal protections are needed to prevent weight discrimination, the conversation also needs to address the stigmatization of obesity. Despite obesity being recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association since 2013, weight bias continues to exist within society, as well as within the medical community. Obese individuals experience this bias at an early age. Most children who are obese admit to being teased at some point in their childhood. Obesity is a mutifactorial disorder and is not caused by a “lack of willpower.”
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