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Weight stigma, fat pedagogy and rediscovering the pleasures of movement: experiencing physical activity and fatness in a public health weight management programme
Paula Wittels,Louise Mansfield +1 more
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It is argued that public health services for those identified as obese and overweight need to draw on public pedagogy approaches by creating shared learning spaces for ethical and respectful knowledge exchange about physical activity, health and wellbeing as opposed to a stigmatising weight-centric ideal of weight management service delivery.Abstract:
Physical activity is typically part of public health weight management programmes in the UK, but despite critical debate about obesity science and discourse, fatness and physical activity, the focu...read more
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