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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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Teen weight gain predicted by response to food commercials

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Teen weight gain predicted by response to food commercials
- In Australia, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) is campaigning for legislation to ban all television food advertising at times where ...

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