Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals

This Viewpoint examines how framing obesity as an individual disease that should be treated may impact addressing the larger systemic- and policy-driven roots of the problem that could be addressed to effectively prevent the disease.

Corresponding Author: Luc Louis Hagenaars, PhD, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (l.l.hagenaars@amsterdamumc.nl).

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