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"Calling a girl 'too fat' may increase her chances of being obese in the future, new research suggests.

"In a letter published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers at UCLA report that 10-year-old girls who are told they are too fat by people that are close to them are more likely to be obese at 19 than girls who were never told they were too fat.

"And that's regardless of what they weighed at the beginning of the study.

"'Making people feel bad about their weight can backfire,' said Janet Tomiyama, an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA and the study's senior author. 'It can be demoralizing. And we know that when people feel bad, they often reach out to food for comfort.'"

Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore, Desi Doyen and Dave Rubin break down the study and discuss Ana's personal fat shaming experience as a four-year-old on The Young Turks.

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