Weight stigma

This section provides links and resources associated to weight stigma such as language and evidence of weight based discrimination.

Better Health Staffordshire promote positive language to be used when communicating with individuals and residents.

• The World Obesity Federation has produced a helpful guide to using appropriate language
   
• The World Obesity Federation has also produced an image bank, with a gallery of free-to-use images to ensure accurate, non-biased images are widely available, here: Image Bank | World Obesity Federation
   
• Obesity UK has produced:
  • Document

    
    Obesity language matters.pdf (PDF, 2.77 MB)
    
  • Document

    
    Obesity reviews 2020.pdf (PDF, 728.99 KB)
    
  • Document

    
    Brown Flint 2021 weight related terminology.pdf (PDF, 651.58 KB)
    
• Healthy voices language guidelines
   
• National Library of Medicine:
   
  • The importance of language in engagement between health-care professionals and people living with obesity: a joint consensus statement - PubMed (nih.gov)
     
  • In Response to "Normalization of Plus Size and the Danger of Unseen Overweight and Obesity in England" - PubMed (nih.gov)
     
• Obesity Empowerment Network: ‘Nothing about us without us’
   
• Guidelines for BDA communications - Respecting people’s self-definition: Eliminating weight stigma - guidelines for BDA communications - BDA