People who think they’re overweight are more at risk for depression

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By Chelsea Whyte

The stigma around being obese or obese would possibly presumably well make a contribution to the link between weight and depression, and this extends even to of us which admire a healthy weight however gaze themselves as being obese.

“This fear of social devaluation because of perceiving oneself as being section of a stigmatised community would possibly presumably well threaten core psychological needs of belonging and acceptance, and in flip trouble mental health,” writes a crew of researchers in a look led by Ashleigh Haynes on the University of Liverpool within the UK.

She and …