# Professor Anat Lechner offers insights on body and food-shaming in the workplace

1 Faculty News June 19, 2019 ![The Atlantic logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031336.jpg?itok=T4ciY3Gl)>

Excerpt from [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/food-and-body-shame-workplace/592069/) -- "'To feel real in a workplace and not just like a cog in a wheel, I think we have a need to connect when we can,' Lechner explains. 'We may not choose to talk about going through divorce or some big disease we have, so we revert to things that are real, but a little less intimate.'"

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