Translating obesity: Navigating the front lines of the “war on fat”

Trainer, Sarah; Brewis, Alexandra; Hruschka, Daniel J.; Williams, Deborah

doi:10.1002/ajhb.22623

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“…Poor health outcomes associated with obesity, including diabetes and hypertension, may be given medical attention. Very little is done to prevent these illnesses from occurring, except in terms of public health messaging regarding individual activities, rarely with any consideration for structural factors (Moffat 2010;Trainer et al 2015). These considerations often fuel public health discourses about the necessity of changing body size.…”

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Body Image Models among Low‐income African American Mothers and Daughters in the Southeast United States

Thomas

DeCaro

2017

Med Anthropol Q

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Obesity among low-income African American women has been studied using the concepts of both satisfaction and acceptance. The satisfaction frame suggests greater satisfaction with their bodies than their white counterparts, irrespective of size. The acceptance frame suggests that alternative aesthetics serve as resistance against intersectional marginalization. Yet, while these women accept their body size in defiance of thinness ideals, they may not be satisfied. We describe cultural models of body image among mothers and daughters in Alabama. We found that respectability, material consumption, and parental support were important factors determining positive body image, exceeding descriptions of physical features. We further found that those expressing greater body dissatisfaction emphasized respectability, whereas those with less dissatisfaction assigned importance to consumerism and physical form. These findings suggest divergences between biomedical messaging and lived experience. They also challenge uncritical or universalist applications of these frames when interpreting African American women's perceptions of their own bodies.

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Body Image Models among Low‐income African American Mothers and Daughters in the Southeast United States

Thomas

DeCaro

2017

Med Anthropol Q

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“…2015; Trainer et al. 2015a, 2015b). Like other stigmas, its effects are felt in terms of discriminatory exclusions or mistreatments across many aspects of daily life.…”

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“…Fat stigma in the United States today is acutely felt by those it touches, and its reach is extremely broad, given its entrenchment across all sectors of U.S. society (Braziel and Lebesco 2001;Farrell 2011;Greenhalgh and Carney 2014;McCullough and Hardin 2013;Puhl and Heuer 2009;Rogge 2004;Rothblum and Solovay 2009;Tomiyama et al 2015;Trainer et al 2015aTrainer et al , 2015b. Like other stigmas, its effects are felt in terms of discriminatory exclusions or mistreatments across many aspects of daily life.…”

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Publically Misfitting: Extreme Weight and the Everyday Production and Reinforcement of Felt Stigma

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Living with extreme weight in the United States is associated with discrimination and self‐stigma, creating structural exclusions, embodied stress, and undermining health and wellbeing. Here we combine ethnographic interviews and surveys from those with experiences of living with extreme weight to better explain how this vulnerability is created and reinforced by public cues, both physical (e.g., seatbelts) and social (the reactions of strangers). “Misfitting” is a major theme in interviews, as is the need to plan and scan constantly while navigating too‐small public spaces. The most distressing events combine physical misfitting with unsympathetic reactions from strangers. Sensitivity to stigmatizing public cues reduces with weight loss, but does not disappear. This study explains one basic mechanism that underlies the creation of felt stigma related to weight even after weight loss: the lack of accommodation for size and the lack of empathy from others that characterize modern urban spaces.

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“…Dette understreker også Goffman (2009) som viser til at folk som opplever å tilhøre samme gruppe sjelden bidrar til stigmatisering. Å innta pasientens perspektiv kan vaere en viktig måte å naerme seg denne situasjonen på (Trainer, Brewis, Hruschka og Williams 2014). Det finnes lite forskning på generelle strategier for å redusere stigmatiserende holdninger fra helsepersonell.…”

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“…På individplan kan det resultere i sosial tilbaketrekning, trøstespising, protestspising, negative psykologiske tilstander, stress, ytterligere overvekt og underforbruk av nødvendige helsetjenester (Brewis 2014 Puhl og Latner (2007) påpeker at fagfolk har adoptert allmenne stigmatiserende holdninger i møte med overvektige pasienter, og Lorentsen og Hansen (2011) understreker at man trenger mer kunnskap om hvordan denne stigmatiseringen foregår. Brown et.al (2007) viser derimot at britiske sykepleiere som selv hadde følt problemet på kroppen synes å ha faerre fordommer mot overvektige pasienter enn normalvektige sykepleiere.…”

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