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Why is tackling obesity stigma a priority for public health?
The reluctance of seeking medical attention due to fear of stigma can inhibit people from using obesity preventive and treatment methods. Numerous disordered eating behaviours, including binge eating, emotional eating, restricted eating, weight cycling, and eating anxiety, have been positively connected with weight stigma. In this video, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed talks about Why is tackling obesity stigma a priority for public health.
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Why is tracking obesity stigma a priority for public health? The reason this is a priority is because stigma leads to prejudice and there is no room for prejudice when it comes to medical conditions. To give you an example, if someone suffered a sporting injury, that was obviously something that they chose to do and they had an injury and we don't have a problem treating it. So why should someone who is suffering from obesity lead to a conundrum when it comes to medical care? Or for that matter, if you that matter if you have somebody suffering from lung cancer from smoking, that does not stop one from offering them treatment to treat that lung cancer. In a similar way, if someone is living from obesity, they should have equal opportunity to have treatment.
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