obese while a further 36% are overweight.In the United States, three out of four people over 20 (71.6%) are overweight or obese.And participants in the research said that they’d received weight stigma from classmates (72% to 81%), coworkers (54% to 62%) and pals (49% to 66%).Meanwhile, over 50% of adults said they avoided healthcare, obtained less frequent check ups and perceived their healthcare quality to be lower.In every country, weight stigma was most frequent in childhood and adolescence with distress being highest during these periods.Professor Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Rudd Centre for Food Policy and Obesity, said: “Despite decades of studies on weight stigma, international comparative research is lacking.“The time is.