From the archives: This story was last updated in June 2019.
In a world where images of people’s bodies are only one click away from being shared with the whole internet, fat-shaming is a powerful and destructive problem. While some people continue to believe that by sharing such pictures they are giving overweight people the motivation they need to lose weight, nothing could be further from the truth.A study published in 2014 in the medical journal Obesity found that “rather than encouraging people to lose weight, weight discrimination promotes weight gain and the onset of obesity.”
