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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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

Books

• 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
  
  

Articles

• 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