UPDATE: May 11, 2023: This story has been updated to reflect the New York City Council's passage of a weight discrimination bill Thursday afternoon. _ Discrimination in the workplace can take many ...

Discrimination of any kind can harm your mental and physical well-being. Weight discrimination is particularly harmful because it’s still legal in most places. It can limit your job prospects, ...

Lazy. Unmotivated. No self-discipline. No willpower. These are just a few of the widespread stereotypes ingrained in American society about people who have a higher body weight or larger body size.

Since Wegovy received approval as a weight loss treatment in 2021, there has been huge demand for GLP-1 drugs. These drugs reduce hunger and suppress the "food noise" that can make it difficult to ...

Weight bias, or discrimination based on a person’s weight, is widespread in society. It can lead to unfair judgement, poorer health outcomes, and unequal access to opportunities. Society judges people ...

Internalized weight stigma is when a person applies negative societal or cultural beliefs about body weight to themselves. These beliefs come from social norms, which are unwritten rules that govern ...