Celebrity fat shaming boosts `weight bias´ in women
(WorldNews Health)

Celebrity ‘fat-shaming’ can have a ripple effect through the population at large, leading more women to develop a negative attitude towards weight, a study has found. Advertising Female celebrities are routinely criticised about their appearance, making “fat-shaming� a fairly regular pop-cultural phenomenon. Although comments criticising weight may be considered trivial and inconsequential, the effects of these messages can extend well beyond the celebrity target and ripple through the population at large. Scientists from McGill University in Canada compared 20 instances of celebrity fat-shaming with women’s implicit attitudes about weight before and after the...