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December 2006 Monthly Archive

Social Stigma = Eat More?

If the anti-fat bias is increasing - then how do people cope? Rebecca M. Puhl and Kelly D. Brownell have published new research investigating this - entitled Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma: An Investigation of Overweight and Obese Adults (see abstract).

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Obesity = Stigma

There's a lot finger-pointing going on these days.

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Living with AIDS: the experience of Botswana

World Aids Day, 1 December, finds around 42 million people infected with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS. Nowhere is its spread greater than Botswana. Amidst the suffering, does the country's experience of this devastating illness offer hope?

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