two weeks after the event.
“While there are discussions in society at large about people losing weight to maintain health, these particular celebrity targets weren’t in danger of cardiovascular disease,” Bartz said. Most would still be considered a normal weight by health professionals, she pointed out.
Bartz said this bias may be lasting because weight is seen as something people can control.
Shame is never a good motivator, said psychologist Judy Malinowski from Ascension Health in Novi, Mich. She wasn’t involved in the study.
“Judging women by their size instead of as a human being is extremely destructive. We say things to ourselves like, ‘I was really good today because I had a
