Article reading: 'What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology'

This article is a really important discussion of the issues around how we refer to different body types. Because not everyone has the time, opportunity or ability to sit and read journal articles, I've done an audio recording for you. Enjoy :-) The article details are: Meadows, Angela, and Sigrún Daníelsdóttir. "What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology." Frontiers in psychology 7 (2016): 1527. Available open access here: Want more of these as soon as they're published? Check out

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Article reading: 'What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology' is an episode from Unpacking Weight Science by Fiona Willer.

This episode is 13:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 26, 2019.

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