Weight Discrimination
Resources
Introduction
This is a partial list of websites, books and articles that have information on weight bias, weight and size discrimination, the Health At Every Size (HAES) principles and size diversity. Additional resources are available upon request.
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Size Discrimination In The Workplace
- Study - Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America
http://www.nichq.org/pdf/O9%20Puhl4.pdf - Study - When It Comes to Pay,Do the Thin Win? The Effect of Weight on Pay for Men and Women
http://www.timothy-judge.com/Judge%20and%20Cable%20(JAP%202010).pdf - Article - Using Behavioral-Based Design to Encourage Healthy Behavior
http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/benefits/Articles/Pages/Behavioral-BasedDesign.aspx - Article - Bosses to employees: Shape up or pay up
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/6859055-418/bosses-to-employees-shape-up-or-pay-up.html - Article - Thinking Cap: The Weight Panic
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/thinking-cap-the-weight-panic/ - Article - Weighty Concerns
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~trautner/Kwan_Trautner_Contexts.pdf - Article - For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/health/16essa.html?ref=science - Article - Whole Foods' Employee BMI Discount Raises Legal Concerns
http://jezebel.com/5458605/whole-foods-employee-bmi-discount-raises-legal-concerns - Article - Can Employee Weight Tip the Balance Sheets?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story?id=8015892&page=1 - Article - Alabama Plans to Tax Fat Employees to Recoup Insurance Costs
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414861,00.html - Article - Debunking Obese Stereotypes
http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/07/21/debunking-obese-stereotypes/2638.html - Study - Investigating the Validity of Stereotypes About Overweight Employees: The Relationship Between Body Weight and Normal Personality Traits
http://gom.sagepub.com/content/33/4/392.abstract - Article - Employers ignore the social stigma on obesity
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2007/03/09/39593/employers-ignore-the-social-stigma-on-obesity.html - Study - Framing messages about weight discrimination: impact on public support for legislation
International Journal of Obesity (2010) 1–10; 0307-0565/10; www.nature.com/ijo - Article - Yale study: Citizens support ban of weight-based discrimination
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Yale-study-Citizens-support-ban-of-weight-based-538429.php
Websites
- ASDAH – The Association for Size Diversity and Health
http://www.sizediversityandhealth.org
- Body Positive
http://www.bodypositive.com
- The Body Positive
http://www.thebodypositive.org
- Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
http://www.cswd.org
- Healthy Weight Network
http://www.healthyweight.net/index.htm
- Esther Rothblum PhD
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rothblum/research.htm
- Linda Bacon PhD
http://www.lindabacon.org/LindaBaconHAES.html
- Teaching Tolerance – A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.tolerance.org
- Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
By Linda Bacon, PhD
- Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight Based Discrimination By Sondra Solovay, J.D.
- Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies
By Kelly D. Brownell (Editor), Rebecca M. Puhl (Editor), Marlene B. Schwartz (Editor), Leslie Rudd (Editor)
- The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession With Weight is Hazardous To Your Health By Paul Campos, J.D.
- Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic
By Eric Oliver, PhD
- Fat Rights, Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood
By Anna Kirkland
- Great Shape: The First Fitness Guide For Large Women
By Pat Lyons, R.N., MA and Debby Burgard, PhD
- Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health
By Glenn A. Gaesser, PhD
- Studies Refute Common Stereotypes About Obese Workers
http://news.msu.edu/story/5608/
- Junkfood Science: I think therefore I am, Part Four
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-think-therefore-i-am-part-four.html
- Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America RM Puhl, T Andreyeva and KD Brownell International Journal of Obesity 32, 992 - 1000 (04 Mar 2008), doi: 10.1038/ijo.2008.22, Original Article 2008 http://yaleruddcenter.org/what/policy/pdfs/WeightBiasPolicyRuddReport.pdf
- Size Diversity in the Workplace: When Goliath Works for David
By Lisa M. Tealer
Health at Every Size Journal July/August 2004
- Articles to Download on HAES, Wellness and Health Promotion
By Jon Robison, PhD
http://www.jonrobison.net/pub.html