This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! As the diet industry works hard to co-opt the language of weight-neutral health and fat liberation and misuse it to sell weight loss interventions, I’m seeing more and more “anti-weight bias” trainings that are actually just diet industry marketing in disguise.
All true. I am amazed at how many doctors/healthcare people have been compromised by grants from Novo/Nordisk. They even help support NPR radio shows. I shouldn't be so amazed!
Years ago, a drug company tried to bribe a member of the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination. Lynn McAfee, to NOT appear at an FDA hearing and speak against approval of their latest weight loss drug. She declined, and spoke against the drug. This kind of thing has been going on for decades.
Your writing on these issues is always so much on target. It is so refreshing! You are among the most intelligent writers on this topic, ever!
I was in a NAAFA webinar the other day which talked about seating and public accommodations for fat people (I was there as an audience member, not a guest). I noted that I, and the entire size acceptance movement, are sometimes being accused of trying to "normalize ob*sity." I suppose I have to plead guilty on that one! We do consider it "normal" that humans should come in diverse sizes and shapes.
All true. I am amazed at how many doctors/healthcare people have been compromised by grants from Novo/Nordisk. They even help support NPR radio shows. I shouldn't be so amazed!
Years ago, a drug company tried to bribe a member of the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination. Lynn McAfee, to NOT appear at an FDA hearing and speak against approval of their latest weight loss drug. She declined, and spoke against the drug. This kind of thing has been going on for decades.
Your writing on these issues is always so much on target. It is so refreshing! You are among the most intelligent writers on this topic, ever!
I was in a NAAFA webinar the other day which talked about seating and public accommodations for fat people (I was there as an audience member, not a guest). I noted that I, and the entire size acceptance movement, are sometimes being accused of trying to "normalize ob*sity." I suppose I have to plead guilty on that one! We do consider it "normal" that humans should come in diverse sizes and shapes.
I learn something every time you write.
I’m going to learn more about astroturfing and why person first language can be controversial.
Thank you!!