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Direct linkDeb Hinchey; Bernice Garnett; Janet Gamble; Lizzy Pope – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: Teaching about nutrition is a crucial component of high school health education, with the potential to shape students' perceptions about food, weight and bodies and improve health outcomes. Weight-inclusive approaches have demonstrated success in improving body acceptance, decreasing dieting behaviors and anti-fat attitudes and improving…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Nutrition Instruction, High School Students, High School Teachers
Lee, Sae-Mi; Zuest, Luciana; Leedeman, Juliana; Li, Shuang; Clifford, Dawn E. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Emerging research suggests weight-neutral approaches to health promotion are effective in supporting overall health, but they have been minimally adopted within physical activity (PA) contexts. This is concerning as research shows PA-related professionals can perpetuate weight stigma, which can disrupt PA participation and enjoyment.…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Health Promotion, Body Weight, Social Bias
Camp-Spivey, Logan J.; Newman, Susan D.; Stevens, Robert N.; Nichols, Michelle – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: School-based interventions and strategies targeting physical activity (PA) and eating patterns have successfully addressed unhealthy behaviors contributing to excess weight in school-age children. The purpose of this study was to investigate South Carolina (SC) public school administrators' perceptions of and experiences with…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Health Behavior, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers
Young, Rachel; Subramanian, Roma; Hinnant, Amanda – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Background: Antiobesity campaigns blaming individual behaviors for obesity have sparked concern that an emphasis on individual behavior may lead to stigmatization of overweight or obese people. Past studies have shown that perpetuating stigma is not effective for influencing behavior. Purpose: This study examined whether stigmatizing or…
Descriptors: Obesity, Health Promotion, Social Bias, Advertising
Download full textWhitehead, Tanya D. – Online Submission, 2007
Given the unprecedented global incidence of overweight in children, the issues that potentially create and sustain a circumstance of epidemic childhood overweight, and the efforts that are underway to prevent and remediate childhood overweight need to be examined. The article explores potentially interrelated causes of obesity/overweight in…
Descriptors: Obesity, Incidence, Children, Public Policy
Peer reviewedCrandall, Christian S.; Martinez, Rebecca – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Tests the role of blame and ideology in antifat prejudice by comparing attitudes among college students (N=406) in the United States and Mexico. Mexican students were significantly less concerned about their own weight and more accepting of fat people than United States students. Prejudice toward fat people in the United States appears to have a…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Body Composition, Body Image, Body Weight
Carr, Deborah; Friedman, Michael A. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2006
We investigate whether underweight, normal-weight, overweight, and obese Americans differ in their evaluations of positive and negative aspects of their interpersonal relationships. Analyses are based on data from the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study, a survey of more than 3,000 adults ages 25 to 74 in 1995. We find no…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Family Relationship, Adolescents
