Table II.

Recommendations for the contrast of weight stigma to be shared with public and private institutions involved in childhood care

• Acknowledge obesity as a chronic disease.

• Provide training for health care professionals on obesity and weight stigma.

• Require all accredited health care facilities to address obesity with trained professionals and adequate equipment, to facilitate access to care and sustainable change toward healthier lifestyles.

• Avoid stigmatizing and/or weight-centered advertising campaigns.

• Spread the antistigma culture in all areas: health, education, politics, and media. Eliminate negative language, words, images when referring to children and adolescents with obesity and their families.

• Carefully evaluate reports, interviews, and articles published regarding the choice of words and images, to promote a culture which does not promote stigma in the media.

• Fund research on the treatment of obesity and stigma proportionally to the prevalence and impact they have on health.

Support “strong” policies to ban stigma on weight as a violation of the right to physical and mental health.