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Old 16th October 2019, 01:54 PM   #133
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Originally Posted by Distracted1 View Post
WRT "fat shaming", I wonder if any research has been done to examine wether fat shaming actually curbs obesity that also attempts to quantify the number of people who are not currently obese because they wished to avoid being fat shamed..
It's an interesting question, but I don't know how you study it. You could only ever do observational studies, you could never do a controlled study because that would never get past an Institutional Review Board. And I don't know if you could separate out fat shaming from other factors in a purely observational study.
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