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Murray, Samantha. "Pathologizing “Fatness”: Medical Authority and Popular Culture." Sociology of Sport Journal 25, no. 1 (March 2008): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.25.1.7.

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Medical narratives surrounding the Western “obesity epidemic” have generated greater fears of “fatness” that have permeated Western collective consciousness, and these anxieties have manifested themselves as a moral panic. The medicalization of fatness via the establishment of the disease of “obesity” has necessarily entailed a combining of medical narratives/imperatives and historico-cultural discursive formations of fatness as a moral failing and as an aesthetic affront. The threat that this epidemic poses is framed by medical discourse not simply as endangering health, but fraying the very (moral) fabric of society. In this article, I argue that all the discourses that circulate around fatness and (re)produce it as a pathology have been subsumed under, and absorbed by, dominant medical narratives. I suggest that a medico-moral discourse has inf(l)ected popular understandings of fatness as an affront to health that gives way to deeper, more fundamental social concerns and anxieties about normalization and normative appearance. Specifically, I examine the constructions of individual responsibility that are evident in medical narratives and discourses about obesity.

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White, Francis Ray. "Fat, Queer, Dead: ‘Obesity’ and the Death Drive." Somatechnics 2, no. 1 (March 2012): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2012.0035.

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That contemporary discourses of the ‘obesity epidemic’ are engaged in the construction of fatness as pathological, immoral and socially undesirable has been the subject much recent critical inquiry within Fat Studies. This paper contributes to that literature with a re-reading of obesity discourse via what queer theorist Lee Edelman (2004) has called ‘reproductive futurism’. Edelman contends that queerness figures the social order's death drive, and is thus abjected in order to assure the reproduction of that social order. This paper argues that, like the queer, fatness is increasingly being figured as anti-social and as that which must be eliminated in the name of a viable future. Framing obesity in this way makes possible an analysis of the presumed ‘threat’ of obesity, frequently referred to, but seldom unpacked, in the existing literature. A comparative analysis of the UK government's Change 4 Life (2009) public health campaign and nineteenth century theories of degeneracy is used to illustrate the cultural anxieties about immorality, disease, civilization and death that undergird both discourses. This analysis suggests the centrality of rationality and self-control, understood as moral, to the reproduction of the social order. Furthermore, reading the ‘obesity epidemic’ as couched in the logic of reproductive futurism opens up potential alternative approaches to fat politics. In the light of Samantha Murray's (2008) critique of the liberal humanist underpinnings of fat activist discourse, this paper considers whether Edelman's advocacy of ‘future-negating’ for queers, offers a productive trajectory for fat politics.

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Bhagat, Krishna, and Donna E. Howard. "The Dominant Obesity Discourse Versus Children’s Conceptualizations of Health: A Comparison Through Dialogue and Drawings." Qualitative Health Research 28, no. 7 (March 26, 2018): 1157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732318764396.

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The emphasis on childhood obesity reduction has been attributed to the dominant obesity discourse. However, some researchers argue that this discourse may be ineffective and even harmful for children. From a post-structuralist perspective, the dominant obesity discourse has the power to shape children’s subjectivities, though subjectivities may also be influenced by personal experiences and other knowledge about bodies and health. There is limited research which explores how children’s conceptualizations of health are informed by the dominant obesity discourse. To address this knowledge gap, qualitative data were collected from 8- to 11-year-old children ( n = 29) regarding their conceptualizations of health, healthy bodies, and health practices. Results suggest that children’s conceptualizations reflected arguments embedded within the dominant obesity discourse, but at times, also contradicted or deviated from it. Study findings can be applied toward children’s health promotion programming to offer a more holistic and inclusive perspective on health and well-being.

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Farrell, Lucy C., Megan J. Warin, Vivienne M. Moore, and Jackie M. Street. "Emotion in obesity discourse: understanding public attitudes towards regulations for obesity prevention." Sociology of Health & Illness 38, no. 4 (November 13, 2015): 543–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12378.

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lisahunter. "Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: fat fabrications." Sport, Education and Society 15, no. 4 (November 2010): 515–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2010.519179.

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Rich, Emma, and John Evans. "‘Fat Ethics’ – The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics." Social Theory & Health 3, no. 4 (October 24, 2005): 341–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700057.

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Rich, Emma, Laura De Pian, and Jessica Francombe-Webb. "Physical Cultures of Stigmatisation: Health Policy & Social Class." Sociological Research Online 20, no. 2 (May 2015): 192–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3613.

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In recent years, the increasing regulation of people's health and bodies has been exacerbated by a contemporary ‘obesity discourse’ centred on eating less, exercising more and losing weight. This paper contributes to the growing body of work critically examining this discourse and highlights the way physical activity and health policy directed at ‘tackling’ the obesity ‘crisis’ in the UK articulates numerous powerful discourses that operate to legitimise and privilege certain ways of knowing and usher forth certain desirable forms of embodiment. This has given greater impetus to further define the role of physical activity, sport and physical education as instruments for addressing public health agendas. It is argued that these policies have particular implications for social class through their constitution of (un)healthy and (in)active ‘working class’ bodies. One of the most powerful forms of stigmatisation and discrimination circulating within contemporary health emerges when the social and cultural tensions of social class intersect with obesity discourse and its accompanying imperatives related to physical activity and diet. This raises some important questions about the future of sport and physical activity as it is shaped by the politics of broader health agendas and our position within this terrain as ‘critics’. Consequently, the latter part of the paper offers reflections on the nature and utility of our (and others’) social science critique in the politics of obesity and articulates the need for crossing disciplinary and sectoral borders.

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Blackburn, Maxine, and Afroditi Stathi. "Moral discourse in general practitioners’ accounts of obesity communication." Social Science & Medicine 230 (June 2019): 166–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.032.

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Monaghan, Lee F., Rachel Colls, and Bethan Evans. "Obesity discourse and fat politics: research, critique and interventions." Critical Public Health 23, no. 3 (September 2013): 249–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.814312.

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Rail, Geneviève. "The Birth of the Obesity Clinic: Confessions of the Flesh, Biopedagogies and Physical Culture." Sociology of Sport Journal 29, no. 2 (June 2012): 227–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.29.2.227.

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The recent construction of a so-called “obesity epidemic” has been fueled by epidemiologically-based studies recuperated by the media and suggestions of the rapid acceleration of obesity rates in the Western world. Studies linking obesity to ill-health have also exploded and greatly impacted our “physical” culture. In this article, I present a series of postcards to summarize the dominant obesity discourse and document the rhetorical terrain of the impending epidemic. I also offer counter-postcards to dispute the postcards’ objective postulations and contextualize the birth of what I call the “Obesity Clinic.” I then characterize this polymorphous clinic as an apparatus of capture sustained by biomedicalization, bioeconomics, and biocultural discourses and speak to its regulation and abjection of unruly (fat) bodies. I conclude with a few reflections about the territorializing nature of the Obesity Clinic as well as what it means for individuals and, more generally, for physical culture and its study.

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Gard, Michael, and David Kirk. "Obesity discourse and the crisis of faith in disciplinary technology." Utbildning & Demokrati – tidskrift för didaktik och utbildningspolitk 16, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 17–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.48059/uod.v16i2.853.

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Ortiz, Selena E., Frederick J. Zimmerman, and Franklin D. Gilliam. "Weighing In: The Taste-Engineering Frame in Obesity Expert Discourse." American Journal of Public Health 105, no. 3 (March 2015): 554–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2014.302273.

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De Pian, Laura. "‘Emboldened bodies’: social class, school health policy and obesity discourse." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 33, no. 5 (December 2012): 655–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.696499.

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Vander Schee, Carolyn J., and Deron Boyles. "‘Exergaming,’ corporate interests and the crisis discourse of childhood obesity." Sport, Education and Society 15, no. 2 (May 2010): 169–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573321003683828.

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White, Francis Ray. "‘We’re kind of devolving’: visual tropes of evolution in obesity discourse." Critical Public Health 23, no. 3 (September 2013): 320–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.777693.

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Wisniewski, A. E. "The weight of communication: TheCanadian Medical Association Journal’s discourse on obesity." Public Understanding of Science 22, no. 3 (July 26, 2011): 351–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662511412861.

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Cameron, Erin. "Teaching Resources for Post-Secondary Educators Who Challenge Dominant “Obesity” Discourse." Fat Studies 4, no. 2 (April 8, 2015): 212–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2015.998977.

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Cotter, Colleen, Danniella Samos, and Deborah Swinglehurst. "Framing obesity in public discourse: Representation through metaphor across text type." Journal of Pragmatics 174 (March 2021): 14–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.12.015.

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Gotovac, Sandra, Andrea LaMarre, and Kathryn Lafreniere. "Words with weight: The construction of obesity in eating disorders research." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 24, no. 2 (July 11, 2018): 113–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459318785706.

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In current public health discourse, obesity is conceptualized as a disease epidemic, with treatment being weight loss. The pursuit of weight loss as a treatment for the “disease” of obesity is in direct contradiction to the history of research in eating disorders, which has demonstrated the risks for the development of eating disorders. In this study, we critically examined the eating disorder literature to explore this contradiction. We analyzed 30 of the top-cited articles in the eating disorder literature between 1994 and 2011, asking: how is the concept of obesity examined in eating disorder research? We identified tensions related to body mass index and the perceived associated risks of lower or higher body mass index, assumptions of the “causes” of fatness (i.e. overeating and inactivity), and the anti-diet voice challenging the prescription of dieting for those in fat bodies. In our analysis, we highlight the problematics of, for instance, prescribing a body mass index range of 20–24 in eating disorder recovery, how many studies in eating disorders do not problematize the presumption that a higher body mass index is necessarily associated with ill health, and a lack of cultural sensitivity and acknowledgment of intersectional spaces of belonging. We discuss these themes in the context of biomedical discourses of obesity contributing to the cultural thin ideal. We argue that biomedical discourses on obesity contribute to the thin ideal nuanced against discourses of healthism that permeate our society. Rather than an ideal of emaciation, it is an ideal of a healthy, productive person, often constructed as morally superior. The moral panic around obesity is evident throughout the eating disorder literature, which is a concern given that we would hope that the aim of eating disorder treatment would be to promote wellness for all—not only those who are thin.

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Stefánsdóttir, Ástríður. "Three positions on the fat body: Evaluating the ethical shortcomings of the obesity discourse." Clinical Ethics 15, no. 1 (January 29, 2020): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477750920903455.

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This article raises serious ethical concerns regarding the medical discourse on obesity. It offers a description of three alternate positions on the fat body: the scientific approach dominant within medicine, the critical view mainly raised by social scientists, and the voices of fat people themselves. By viewing and comparing the perspectives these positions reveal, it is possible to underline the complexity of the problem labeled as the “obesity epidemic” and draw attention to serious ethical concerns in the mainstream medical discussion. Medicalization of fat people narrows the focus on the “obesity epidemic” where it is framed as private and personal rather than social and political. It is also argued that the hegemonic discourse of medicine omits the social embeddedness of fat people and ignores their own voices and narratives. This undermines the well-being of fat people and hides their humanity as well.

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Sinclair, John, and Rowan Wilken. "Super Size Me: Accounting for Television Advertising in the Public Discourse on Obesity." Media International Australia 124, no. 1 (August 2007): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0712400105.

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For some time, advertising has been the object of much public debate about eating disorders, such as concerns about its role in fostering body image. More recently, attention has turned towards the degree to which advertising is implicated in what has become a bona fide public health issue in the developed countries, namely obesity — especially amongst children. This is both a local issue, in that it has mobilised concerned parents’ groups in the community, and a global one, in that it raises questions about fast food practices and the commercialisation of food in general within global culture. While corporations have pursued ever more intricate ways to penetrate their target markets, they also have had to respond concretely to public concerns. This paper outlines the dimensions of the debate about the social and cultural impacts attributed to advertising in the public discourse about obesity, identifying the various positions, and seeks to assess the mode and degree to which advertising plausibly can be held responsible.

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Parsons, Allison A., Katrina M. Walsemann, Sonya J. Jones, Herman Knopf, and Christine E. Blake. "The influence of dominant obesity discourse on child health narratives: a qualitative study." Critical Public Health 26, no. 5 (March 28, 2016): 602–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2016.1164298.

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Fraser, Suzanne, JaneMaree Maher, and Jan Wright. "Between bodies and collectivities: Articulating the action of emotion in obesity epidemic discourse." Social Theory & Health 8, no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 192–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sth.2009.28.

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Monaghan, Lee F. "Men, Physical Activity, and the Obesity Discourse: Critical Understandings from a Qualitative Study." Sociology of Sport Journal 25, no. 1 (March 2008): 97–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.25.1.97.

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This article explores men’s talk about physical activity, weight, health and slimming. Drawing from qualitative data from men whom medicine might label overweight or obese, it outlines various ideal typical ways of orienting to the idea that physical activity promotes “healthy” weight loss before exploring the most critical display of perspective: justifiable resistance and defiance. This gendered mode of accountability comprises numerous themes. These range from the inefficiency of physical activity in promoting weight loss to resisting imposed discipline. Theoretically and politically, these data are read as a situationally fitting and meaningful response to “symbolic violence” in a field of “masculine domination” (Bourdieu 2001)—that is, a society in which fatness is routinely discredited as feminine and feminizing filth by institutions that are publicly reinforcing and amplifying fatphobic norms or sizism.

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Mulderrig, Jane. "Reframing obesity: a critical discourse analysis of the UK’s first social marketing campaign." Critical Policy Studies 11, no. 4 (October 17, 2016): 455–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2016.1191364.

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Olsen, Anna, Jane Dixon, Cathy Banwell, and Phillip Baker. "Weighing it up: the missing social inequalities dimension in Australian obesity policy discourse." Health Promotion Journal of Australia 20, no. 3 (2009): 167–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/he09167.

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Ngongalah, Lem, Judith Rankin, Nicola Heslehurst, and Tim Rapley. "Pre- and Post-Migration Influences on Weight Management Behaviours before and during Pregnancy: Perceptions of African Migrant Women in England." Nutrients 13, no. 5 (May 14, 2021): 1667. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13051667.

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The prevalence of overweight/obesity is high among Black women in England, who also face high risks of pregnancy and childbirth complications. This study explored African migrant women’s perceptions of pre- and post-migration influences on their weight-related behaviours and weight management support during pregnancy. Interviews were conducted with women of child-bearing age from Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon (n = 23). Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Four themes were identified: changing dietary behaviours after migration, changing physical activity (PA) behaviours after migration, increased discourse on obesity, and weight management advice and support received. Navigating a new food environment, interactions with other populations in England, and the need to socialise influenced changes in dietary behaviours. Participants considered that living in England ‘makes you lazy’ due to its obesogenic environment, while increased discourses on obesity heightened weight awareness. Women struggled to relate to dietary advice from midwives but found PA advice useful. Relatives provided valuable support but could influence unhealthy weight-related practices. There is a need for interventions addressing gaps in weight management support for these women, especially considering their migrant backgrounds and multicultural identities. Further research is needed to understand their unique challenges, and collaborations with relatives could inform the development of effective weight management interventions.

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Setchell, Jenny, Bernadette M. Watson, Micheal Gard, and Liz Jones. "Physical Therapists' Ways of Talking About Overweight and Obesity: Clinical Implications." Physical Therapy 96, no. 6 (June 1, 2016): 865–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20150286.

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Background How people think and talk about weight is important because it can influence their behavior toward people who are overweight. One study has shown that physical therapists have negative attitudes toward people who are overweight. However, how this finding translates into clinical practice is not well understood. Investigating physical therapists' ways of thinking and speaking about overweight and obesity in the context of their work can provide insight into this underresearched area. Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate physical therapists' ways of talking about overweight individuals and discuss clinical implications. Design An interpretive qualitative design was used. Methods The research team used discourse analysis, a type of inductive qualitative methodology, to guide data collection and analysis. The data came from 6 focus groups of 4 to 6 physical therapists in Queensland, Australia, who discussed weight in a physical therapy environment. Participants (N=27) represented a variety of physical therapy subdisciplines. Results Data analysis identified 4 main weight discourses (ways of thinking and speaking about weight). Participants described patients who are overweight as little affected by stigma and difficult to treat. Furthermore, participants portrayed weight as having simple causes and being important in physical therapy. Alternate weight discourses were less frequent in these data. Conclusions The results indicated that some physical therapists' understandings of weight might lead to negative interactions with patients who are overweight. The findings suggest physical therapists require more nuanced understandings of: how patients who are overweight might feel in a physical therapy setting, the complexity of causes of weight, and possible benefits and disadvantages of introducing weight-management discussions with patients. Therefore, education should encourage complex understandings of working with patients of all sizes, including knowledge of weight stigma.

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Pazio-Wlazłowska, Dorota. "OBESITY in Colloquial Polish. Inventory Research Project." Slavic World in the Third Millennium 15, no. 3-4 (2020): 182–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2020.15.3-4.12.

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This article is an overview of a project that aims to study the way in which colloquial Polish is used to verbalise the state of being obese. The innovation of this project is the attempt to comprehensively study the problem by including both how being obese is evaluated from the perspective of slim people and the individual experience of people who are obese. Rather than speaking, the obese are usually spoken of (by slim people). There is a dominant group of slim people that draws up the conditions of discourse, enacts symbolic violence against obese people, and imposes a particular way of verbalising the state of being obese. This project is intended to overcome this dominance, aiming to not only study texts that are authored by slim people, but also give the floor to obese people, with the aim of objectivising the phenomenon. The problem of verbalising obesity is contemporaneous and emotionally biased. The significant progress in elucidating the causes and consequences of obesity that has taken place over the last two decades has not led to a change in the perception of obesity in colloquial language. In the common consciousness of Polish speakers, an obese person disturbs the culturally established sense of aesthetics of a human body. Obese people are perceived as alien, worse, uglier, lazy, less intelligent, and incongruous when compared with the ideal image of people who are healthy, lean, and successful. The project envisions excerpting lexemes and metaphors used to describe obesity from dictionaries, fiction, public discourse (periodicals, TV programmes), and interviews with obese people. The result of the work will be an inventory – a database with a specific template for describing a unit. An important part of each unit will be information on the axiological and semantic features of the lexemes and metaphors presented in the form of a thematic category code. The project is based on the cognitive theory of metaphor of G. Lakoff, the method of removal of metaphors from text of B. Fatyga and P. Zieliński, the theory of cognitive definition of J. Bartmiński, and the method of studying the personal language of values of J. Puzynina.

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McPhail, Deborah, and Andrea E. Bombak. "Fat, queer and sick? A critical analysis of ‘lesbian obesity’ in public health discourse." Critical Public Health 25, no. 5 (December 17, 2014): 539–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2014.992391.

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Allison, D. B. "Evidence, discourse and values in obesity-oriented policy: menu labeling as a conversation starter." International Journal of Obesity 35, no. 4 (March 15, 2011): 464–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2011.28.

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Evans, John, Brian Davies, and Emma Rich. "The class and cultural functions of obesity discourse: our latter day child saving movement." International Studies in Sociology of Education 18, no. 2 (June 2008): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09620210802351367.

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Nourpanah, Shiva, and Fiona S. Martin. "‘Sound Health Starts from Education’: the social construction of obesity in Iranian public health discourse." Critical Public Health 26, no. 3 (December 23, 2015): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2015.1123809.

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Lee, Jessica, and Doune Macdonald. "‘Are they just checking our obesity or what?’ The healthism discourse and rural young women." Sport, Education and Society 15, no. 2 (May 2010): 203–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573321003683851.

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Casas, Candice. "Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics: Review ofObesity Discourse and Fat Politics: Research, Critique and Interventions, by Lee Monaghan, Rachel Colls, and Bethan Evans (Editors)." Fat Studies 4, no. 1 (December 31, 2014): 73–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2015.967580.

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Benje, Ana. "Obesity Epidemics, the State, the Individual, and the Private in Public-Private Partnerships." European Journal of Risk Regulation 6, no. 2 (June 2015): 296–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1867299x0000461x.

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The report aims to illustrate how weakening of the statehood is reflected in the way EU and its member-states manage obesity epidemics. Private interests and behavioural turn in policy mechanisms call for more state involvement and rigorous democratic deliberation not only of nudges coming from the state, but those coming from the industry as well. The potential of nudging does not lie in the behavioural interventions it is capable of producing, but rather in the discourse it kick-started, as behavioural law and economics are paving their way into policy-making.

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McBride, Kate, Catharine Fleming, Emma George, Genevieve Steiner, and Freya MacMillan. "Double Discourse: Qualitative Perspectives on Breast Screening Participation among Obese Women and Their Health Care Providers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 4 (February 13, 2019): 534. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040534.

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Obesity in Australia is rising rapidly, and is a major public health concern. Obesity increases the risk of breast cancer and worsens associated outcomes, yet breast screening participation rates in Australia are suboptimal and can be lower in higher risk, obese women. This study qualitatively explored barriers to breast screening participation in obese women in Australia. In-depth interviews (n = 29), were conducted with obese women (body mass index ≥ 30) and key health providers. A disconnect between providers’ and women’s perceptions was found. For women, low knowledge around a heightened need to screen existed, they also reported limited desire to prioritize personal health needs, reluctance to screen due to poor body image and prior negative mammographic experiences due to issues with weight. Providers perceived few issues in screening obese women beyond equipment limitations, and health and safety issues. Overall, weight was a taboo topic among our interviewees, indicating that a lack of discourse around this issue may be putting obese women at increased risk of breast cancer morbidity and mortality. Consideration of breast screening policy in obese women is warranted. Targeted health promotion on increased breast cancer risk in obese women is required as is a need to address body image issues and encourage screening participation.

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Bacon, Hannah. "Sin or Slim?" Fieldwork in Religion 8, no. 1 (October 29, 2013): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.v8i1.92.

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Is fat a sin? Popular ‘knowledge’ about obesity which frames fat as an avoidable behavioural condition would certainly suggest it can be blamed on the fat person. Discourses of health reproduced within public policy and media reporting assist in the pathologization of fat bodies, insisting that fat is the result of unhealthy lifestyle choices. It is, however, not simply medical interpretations of fat that facilitate this moral discourse. Religion also provides an important source of moral judgment. This paper draws on my qualitative research inside a UK secular, commercial slimming group to consider how the Christian moral language of sin functions within this setting to construct a politics of choice that holds the dieter personally responsible for her fat. Interpreting weight loss and weight gain as a measure of moral character, this theological language assists in the operation of ‘normative conformity’, conforming women’s bodies to cultural knowledge about fat.

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Ferris, Julie E. "Parallel Discourses and “Appropriate” Bodies: Media Constructions of Anorexia and Obesity in the Cases of Tracey Gold and Carnie Wilson." Journal of Communication Inquiry 27, no. 3 (July 2003): 256–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859903252848.

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Mass media images of gender, beauty, and women have been at the heart of many feminist arguments about the need for change in our understanding of gender and the role it plays in our day-to-day existence. The role of a body, much like the role of a woman, is also negotiated between the pages and airwaves of a popular culture that precariously favors particular excessive behaviors and norms. A textual analysis of the popular press discourse surrounding two bodies, prominently defined in popular culture, demonstrates specific rhetorical strategies at work in the construction of the “appropriate” cultural body. This article explores how these two bodies are positioned at the border of cultural intelligibility and how these bodies, acting as discourse themselves, speak to culture and reify their positions on the margins.

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Dutta, Mili, Y. Selvamani, Pushpendra Singh, and Lokender Prashad. "The double burden of malnutrition among adults in India: evidence from the National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16)." Epidemiology and Health 41 (December 18, 2019): e2019050. http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2019050.

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OBJECTIVES: India still faces the burden of undernutrition and communicable diseases, and the prevalence of overweight/obesity is steadily increasing. The discourse regarding the dual burden of underweight and overweight/obesity has not yet been widely explored in both men and women. The present study assessed the determinants of underweight and overweight/obesity in India among adult men and women aged 15-49.METHODS: Population-based cross-sectional and nationally representative data from the National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16), consisting of a sample of men and women, were analyzed. Stratified 2-stage sampling was used in the NFHS-4 study protocol. In the present study, bivariate and adjusted multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the correlates of underweight and overweight/obesity.RESULTS: The results suggested a persistently high prevalence of underweight coexisting with an increased prevalence of overweight/obesity in India. The risk of underweight was highest in the central and western regions and was also relatively high among those who used either smoking or smokeless tobacco. Overweight/obesity was more prevalent in urban areas, in the southern region, and among adults aged 35-49. Furthermore, level of education and wealth index were positively associated with overweight/obesity. More educated and wealthier adults were less likely to be underweight.CONCLUSIONS: In India, underweight has been prevalent, and the prevalence of overweight/obesity is increasing rapidly, particularly among men. The dual burden of underweight and overweight/obesity is alarming and needs to be considered; public health measures to address this situation must also be adopted through policy initiatives.

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Williams, Oli, and Ellen Annandale. "Obesity, stigma and reflexive embodiment: Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 24, no. 4 (November 14, 2018): 421–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459318812007.

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The dominant obesity discourse which emphasises individual moral responsibility and lifestyle modification encourages weight-based stigma. Existing research overwhelmingly demonstrates that obesity stigma is an ineffective means by which to reduce the incidence of obesity and that it promotes weight-gain. However, the sensate experiences associated with the subjective experience of obesity stigma as a reflexively embodied phenomenon have been largely unexamined. This article addresses this knowledge gap by providing a phenomenological account. Data are derived from 11 months of ethnographic participant observation and semi-structured interviews with three single-sex weight-loss groups in England. Group members were predominantly overweight/obese and of low-socio-economic status. The analysis triangulates these two data sources to investigate what/how obesity stigma made group members feel. We find that obesity stigma confused participant’s objective and subjective experiences of their bodies. This was primarily evident on occasions when group members felt heavier after engaging in behaviours associated with weight-gain but this ‘weight’ did not register on the weighing scales. We conceptualise this as the weight of expectation which is taken as illustrative of the perpetual uncertainty and morality that characterises weight-management. In addition, we show that respondents ascribed their sensate experiences of physiological responses to exercise with moral and social significance. These carnal cues provided a sense of certainty and played an important role in attempts to negotiate obesity stigma. These findings deepen the understanding of how and why obesity stigma is an inappropriate and ineffective means of promoting weight-loss.

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Bonfiglioli, Catriona. "Analysing the ethics of weight-related news through the lens of journalism codes." Australian Journalism Review 42, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 313–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00042_1.

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Overweight and obesity are significant health issues for Australians. Fat people make up the majority of the population, yet they experience significant discrimination. Analyses of weight-related news demonstrate that blame for obesity is most often laid at the feet of fat people, despite a large body of evidence demonstrating the power of environmental drivers of obesity beyond individual control. There is growing criticism of how news frames obesity and illustrates news with ‘headless fatties’. This study is the first to analyse the ethics of reporting obesity using current journalists’ codes as the analytical framework. It reports an original ethical analysis of a unique dataset of weight-related news from a moment in history when obesity was framed as a crisis and coverage was unprecedented. Using the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) code of ethics as an analytical framework, the extent to which coverage meets standards of journalism ethics and professionalism and performs the watchdog role is interrogated. The analysis identifies how an opportunity to highlight for the public the power and significance of those drivers of weight gain beyond individual control was briefly seized and then dropped in the face of the dominant discourse of individual responsibility. Despite numerous calls to improve reporting of obesity and representations of people of size, the news media do too little to hold industry and government to account, and the paucity of voices of people of size suggests a lack of opportunity for reply. Strategies for a more ethical approach to obesity news are offered.

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Montaña Blasco, Mireia, and Mònika Jiménez-Morales. "Soft Drinks and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Advertising in Spain: Correlation between Nutritional Values and Advertising Discursive Strategies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 7 (March 30, 2020): 2335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072335.

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Spain ranks fifth among European countries for childhood obesity. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and soft drinks (SDs) are consumed by 81% of the Spanish children weekly. Advertising is one of the factors that contributes to an obesogenic environment. This study correlated longitudinally the nutritional values of SSBs and SDs and advertising discursive strategies between 2013 and 2018 for all media. A mixed-methods approach was applied that included a quantitative analysis of advertising spend data, a content analysis and a study of the discursive strategies used in advertisements. In addition, the Nutri-score system was used in order to determine the nutritional quality of the beverages. The results were analyzed applying the Spanish advertising regulatory framework for obesity prevention. The main findings indicate an association between low nutritional value beverage advertisements and a discourse based on hedonistic elements. In order to prevent childhood obesity in Spain, a stricter regulation of advertising is necessary, especially in aspects such as the language used to present products and celebrity endorsements.

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Cliff, Ken, and Jan Wright. "Confusing and contradictory: considering obesity discourse and eating disorders as they shape body pedagogies in HPE." Sport, Education and Society 15, no. 2 (May 2010): 221–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573321003683893.

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Porter, Christine M. "‘Choice’: what we mean by it, and what that means for preventing childhood obesity." Public Health Nutrition 16, no. 1 (March 6, 2012): 123–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980012000596.

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AbstractObjective(i) To map how US adults value ‘choice’ in the context of obesity policy and (ii) to discuss implications for obesity prevention in children.DesignSemi-structured interviews (n 105) were conducted between 2006 and 2009 about causes of and solutions to childhood obesity. Quotes captured in field notes from community meetings (n 6) on childhood obesity prevention were also analysed. Each use of the word ‘choice’ and its variants was identified in these texts. Content and discourse were analysed to identify the implied values and meaning in each use.SettingNorth-eastern USA.SubjectsOne hundred and five adults, some involved in childhood obesity prevention initiatives.ResultsThree distinct frames of ‘choice’ emerged: (i) having choices (choice as freedom), (ii) making choices (choice as responsibility) and (iii) influencing choices (contextual constraints and impacts on choice). Many speakers used more than one frame over the course of an interview. Most people using the third frame seemed to share the values behind the first two frames, but focused on conditions required to enable people to be accountable for their choices and to make truly free choices. A small subset thought outside the frame of individual choice, valuing, as one person put it, a ‘social contract’.ConclusionsPublic debate in the USA about responsibility for and solutions to rising obesity rates often hinges on notions of ‘choice’. These frames, and the values underlying them, are not mutually exclusive. Respecting the values behind each ‘choice’ frame when crafting obesity prevention policy and employing all three in public communications about such policy may facilitate greater consensus on prevention measures.

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Andayani, Santi, and Ni Made Savitri Paramita. "REPRODUKSI WACANA METABO LAW DALAM PEMBENTUKAN STEREOTYPE FAT CHARACTER PADA ANIME JEPANG." IZUMI 7, no. 1 (April 19, 2018): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/izumi.7.1.11-21.

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(Title: The Reproduction Of Metabo Law Discourse In Constructing Fat Characters Stereotype In Japanese Animes) Japanese government through Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in 2008 issued the Metabo Law regulation, which is the standard of medical and health guidance that is done specifically with the purpose to decrease the number of obesity which cause the metabolic syndrome. This regulation put the body of each individual to be open to the public. Using Foucault’s perception, this study look how Metabo Law works and how the reproduction of Metabo Law discourses constructing stereotype of fat character in Japanese anime. This study took data from 14 fat character in 13 anime, airing in 2008’s until 2015’s. To complete the data, interview were conducted on 5 Japanese about their understanding about Metabo Law. This study shows that with the normalization process using yearly general checkup and the reproduction of Metabo Law discourses, Japanese government successfully change the Japanese mindset and their behavior in maintained a healthy life style and to stay slim. The stereotype of the fat character that emerge as the product of reproduction of Metabo Law discourses is greedy, careless, cowardly, shy/ have low self-confident, and an otaku.

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Seymour, Justine, Jennifer L. Barnes, Julie Schumacher, and Rachel L. Vollmer. "A Qualitative Exploration of Weight Bias and Quality of Health Care Among Health Care Professionals Using Hypothetical Patient Scenarios." INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 55 (January 1, 2018): 004695801877417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958018774171.

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether weight bias exhibited by health care professionals (HCPs) impacts quality of health care provided to individuals with obesity. HCPs (n = 220; 88% female, 87% nurses) in the Midwest region of the United States were recruited to complete an online survey. In this within-subjects study design, participants completed the Attitudes Towards Obese Persons (ATOP) scale to assess weight bias and responded to 2 (1 person with obesity and 1 person without obesity) hypothetical patient scenarios to evaluate quality of care. A median split was calculated for ATOP scores to divide participants into high or low weight bias groups. Within these groups, thematic analysis was used to uncover themes in quality of care based on participants’ responses to each scenario. The analysis revealed that HCPs in the high weight bias group gave specific diet and exercise recommendations, offered health advice regarding weight loss, and used less teaching discourse when responding to the patient with obesity. In addition, in both weight bias groups, patients with obesity were started on pharmaceutical therapies sooner. The findings of this study suggest a need to educate HCPs on the importance of empathy and compassion when providing treatment to all patients, regardless of weight, to increase quality of care and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

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Mallarino, Christina, Luis F. Gómez, Laura González-Zapata, Yazmín Cadena, and Diana C. Parra. "Advertising of ultra-processed foods and beverages: children as a vulnerable population." Revista de Saúde Pública 47, no. 5 (October 2013): 1006–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-8910.2013047004319.

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The rapid nutrition transition occurring in Latin America has resulted in a sharp increase of childhood overweight and obesity. Recent evidence has shown that food and beverage advertising has a great influence on children’s eating behavior. This population has become a key target market for the ultra-processed foods and beverages industry, which is marketing products in an aggressive way. Evidence shows that Latin American countries have poor regulation of ultra-processed foods and beverages advertising, where the discourse of self-regulation still prevails over statutory regulations. The following commentary explores how advertising might play an important role in developing unhealthy dietary patterns and obesity in Latin American children, as well as the urgent need for government action and the involvement of civil society to tackle this public health issue.

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Cain, Patricia, Ngaire Donaghue, and Graeme Ditchburn. "Concerns, culprits, counsel, and conflict: A thematic analysis of “obesity” and fat discourse in digital news media." Fat Studies 6, no. 2 (November 29, 2016): 170–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2017.1244418.

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Sharma, Sumedha. "The XXI International Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy meeting, São Paulo, Brazil – A global health perspective." Obstetric Medicine 10, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 30–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1753495x16689359.

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The 21st International Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP) meeting was held in São Paulo, Brazil from 23 to 26 October 2016. The discourse at this Congress brought global maternal health into the foray among basic science and clinical research. In concordance with the United Nations sustainable development goals which warrant an integrated view to health with investments in adolescence and childhood, the research at Congress focussed on a ‘life course’ approach to maternal health – examining intergenerational effects of maternal obesity and hypertension on the behavioral and physical developments of infants. Bringing in research from the Global South highlighted inequities in treatment and management of women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, in addition to the challenges in adoption of recommendations generated in Global North. The evidence shared can serve as platform for further discourse on global maternal health and in generating accountability to close the ‘evidence to policy’ gap.

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