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NATIONAL POST | The obesity epidemic is real, but our solutions to date have been anything but

Published: 13 May 2019

Obesity is a global public health issue, yet it’s regarded by many as a personal failing. Negative attitudes abound. Chief among them: The mistaken belief that those with it are to blame for their weight; the dogged perception that if they only set their minds to it, they could shed it.

Bärbel Knäuper, professor of Health Psychology at 91ºÚÁÏÍø, says that the flurry of diet-related messaging on social media and elsewhere has resulted in food becoming compartmentalized; eating is no longer based on what we know and feel about what our bodies need. “A lot of people have lost the ability to listen to their own bodies.â€

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