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To the Editor: Gortmaker et al. (Sept. 30 issue)¹ found that obese young women were less likely to marry, had lower incomes, and had completed less schooling than nonobese women and that obese young men were less likely to marry than nonobese men. Two issues need further attention: the problem of stigmatization and the direction of causality.

The stigmatization of conditions ranging from obesity to AIDS is a serious social problem, one that the authors recognize as the main explanation for their findings. People who do not conform to social ideals of thinness suffer from discrimination that limits their access . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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