Yale Researchers Find Stigmatizing Overweight People Can DiscourageDieting.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Researchers Find Stigmatizing Overweight People Can DiscourageDieting(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25102006 New Haven, Conn. -- A Yale University study of overweight people tested the claim that weight bias motivates people to lose weight and found the opposite can be the case - individuals cope with weight stigmatization through a variety of strategies, including eating more food and giving up on dieting.

The study by Rebecca Puhl, associate research scientist, and Kelly Brownell, director of Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, was published in the October 2006 issue of the journal Obesity. In a survey of more than 2,000 members of a weight loss support program, 93 percent...