Editing Obesity (section)

===Size acceptance===
{{See also|Fat acceptance movement|Social stigma of obesity|Health at Every Size|Fat fetishism}}
[[File:PresidentTaftTelephoneCrop.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[United States President]] [[William Howard Taft]] was often ridiculed for being overweight.]]
[[File:Wahlkampf_Landtagswahl_NRW_2022_-_Bündnis_90-Die_Grünen_-_Heumarkt_Köln_2022-05-13-4484.jpg|thumb|upright=1|German politician [[Ricarda Lang]] is a victim of fat shaming on the internet.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.fat-shaming-im-netz-ricarda-lang-die-angegriffene.98723719-7c97-4469-8e20-27ffb51ac6d6.html |title=Fat Shaming im Netz: Ricarda Lang, die Angegriffene |website=[[stuttgarter-nachrichten.de]] | vauthors = Hanna S |date=January 31, 2022 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |language=de}}</ref>]]

The principal goal of the fat acceptance movement is to decrease discrimination against people who are overweight and obese.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnaafa.org/whatisnaafa.html |title=What is NAAFA |website=[[National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance]] |access-date=17 February 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312001218/http://www.capitalnaafa.org/whatisnaafa.html |archive-date=12 March 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.size-acceptance.org/mission.html |title=ISAA Mission Statement |website=[[International Size Acceptance Association]] |access-date=17 February 2009}}</ref> However, some in the movement are also attempting to challenge the established relationship between obesity and negative health outcomes.<ref name=Pulver2007>{{cite book| vauthors = Pulver A |title=An Imperfect Fit: Obesity, Public Health, and Disability Anti-Discrimination Law |publisher=Social Science Electronic Publishing |year=2007 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.1316106 |ssrn=1316106 |s2cid=153699669 }}</ref>

A number of organizations exist that promote the acceptance of obesity. They have increased in prominence in the latter half of the 20th&nbsp;century.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Neumark-Sztainer D | title = The weight dilemma: a range of philosophical perspectives | journal = International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders | volume = 23 | issue = Suppl 2 | pages = S31–7 | date = March 1999 | pmid = 10340803 | doi = 10.1038/sj.ijo.0800857 | type = Review | doi-access = free }}</ref> The US-based [[National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance]] (NAAFA) was formed in 1969 and describes itself as a civil rights organization dedicated to ending size discrimination.<ref>{{cite web |author=National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance |url=http://www.naafaonline.com/dev2/ |title=We come in all sizes |publisher=NAAFA |year=2008 |access-date=29 July 2008 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226125112/https://www.naafaonline.com/dev2/%20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[International Size Acceptance Association]] (ISAA) is a [[non-governmental organization]] (NGO) which was founded in 1997. It has more of a global orientation and describes its mission as promoting size acceptance and helping to end weight-based discrimination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.size-acceptance.org/ |title=International Size Acceptance Association – ISAA |website=International Size Acceptance Association |access-date=13 January 2009}}</ref> These groups often argue for the recognition of obesity as a disability under the US [[Americans With Disabilities Act]] (ADA). The American legal system, however, has decided that the potential public health costs exceed the benefits of extending this anti-discrimination law to cover obesity.<ref name=Pulver2007/>