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Academics say that anti-fat bias can have significant implications, from how people are perceived in job interviews to how doctors interact with them.

When people look for solutions, Shashoua said: “We need to look at research that controls for anti-fat bias.”

The body positivity movement has not yet ousted anti-fat bias or stigma.

Can parents of fat children — who may be fat themselves — really make an “informed choice” in an anti-fat medical system in an anti-fat society?

Amid the 1980s and early 1990s, consumers refrained from eating bacon or other processed pork products due to anti-fat and anti-nitrate scares.