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Volume 46, No. 2, 2016, pages 111-126  \nChallenging “Size Matters” Messages: An Exploration of the Experiences of Critical Obesity Scholars in Higher Education  \nErin Cameron  \nMemorial University  \nAbstract  \nGiven that postsecondary institutions are increasingly seen as sites to promote health, critical scholars are calling attention to how the contemporary Western weight-centred health paradigm reinforces a “size matters” message that is fueling harmful attitudes towards and judgments of bodies. As such, research that highlights strategies to promote safe teaching and learning environments for students and faculty, regardless of body shape and size, is of utmost importance. Through 26 participant interviews, this study examines the experiences of critical obesity scholars who teach courses that engage critical approaches to obesity, fatness, and body size. The findings of this study shed light on the developing field of critical obesity scholarship, the types of challenges faced by critical obesity scholars in higher education, and how these scholars are building community as a way of coping with challenges facing the emerging field.  \nRésumé  \nPuisque les institutions d’enseignement post-secondaire sont de plus en plus perçues comme des lieux de promotion de la santé, les acteurs universitairesattirent l’attention sur la façon dont l’approche contemporaine de l’Occident, axée sur le poids corporel, renforce les attitudes discriminatoires et les discours nocifs sur le surplus de poids. En découle l’importance d’effectuer des recherches favorisant des stratégies d’enseignement et d’apprentissage qui soient déconnectées de l’image corporelle. Ainsi, la présente étude  \nCJHE / RCES Volume 46, No. 2, 2016  \nChallenging “Size Matters” Messages / E. Cameron 112  \nanalyse les entrevues de 26 professeurs universitaires qui enseignent une approche critique des facteurs traditionnels liés à l’obésité et à la composition corporelle. Les résultats font la lumière sur l’émergence de la mission professorale quant à l’obésité grave, sur les défis que relèvent les chercheurs du domaine en enseignement supérieur, et sur la façon dont ces chercheursse constituent une nouvelle communauté scientifique afin de surmonter les difficultés rencontrées par les acteurs de cette recherche en émergence.  \nIntroduction  \nThe recent signing of the Okanagan Charter (2015) at the International Congress on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges raises awareness of the role and responsibility of postsecondary institutions to promote health, beyond just training healthcare professionals. The charter suggests that complex global health challenges in society today will require highly innovative thinking and collaboration by all professionals. An example of such thinking is the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical obesity scholarship, which refers to all scholarship that challenges dominant obesity discourse such as fat studies, critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, critical geographies of body size, and health at every size.  \nCritical obesity scholarship draws attention to how weight-centred approaches to health fail to highlight more important social determinants of health (O’Hara & Gregg, 2012). This scholarship also highlights how growing concerns about the “obesity epidemic” have led to a “shadow epidemic”(Daghofer, 2013) of negative attitudes, beliefs, assumptions, and judgements about larger body sizes that result in harmful stereotypes and stigmatization (Puhl & Brownell, 2001) . It has been shown that stigma based on weight (herein referred to as obesity stigma) results in poor body image, decreased self-esteem, depression, lower physical activity levels, emotional eating, disordered eating, avoidance of health care, challenges in school, and overall poor quality of life (Puhl & Brownell, 2006) . 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