Tag: obesity

British fitness expert and television presenter Davina McCall says that she has banned scales from her home to promote body positivity.

Professor Says Doctors Oppress Obese People with Waiting Room Chairs

Medical research from the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests that the normalization of “plus-size” bodies has led to an increased risk of obesity.

A professor at Temple University argued in a recent book that “weight loss” and high “athletic performance” are “Western values.”

A new program in the United Kingdom seeks to ban advertisements featuring thin women.

A UK fashion chain has been accused of administering a “fat tax” after being caught charging more for clothes for “plus-size” people than it does for thin people.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a plan to ban “junk food” advertising on the capital’s transport network.

Self-identifying “woman of size” Jana Schmieding says she experienced “size-based discrimination” at Universal Studios when she was told that she was too large to fit on the Harry Potter ride.

A professor at Gulf Coast State College has proposed the idea of a fat people’s Olympic games to fight body shaming.

A column in the Guardian this week argues that the fat acceptance movement is wrong to celebrate obesity.

Radical activist Virgie Tovar is scheduled to speak at Yale University on Thursday evening. Tovar is best known for promoting a brand of body nihilism that encourages women to not care about their weight, no matter how large they are.

An article published on health information site Heathline this month argues that doctors discriminate against their overweight patients.

A column in the Washington Post this week argues that American spin classes are filled with too many white and thin participants.

A column in The Guardian this week argues that a new exercise tracking product aimed at children may lead to unhealthy attitudes about exercise and fitness and is a “fat-shaming toy.”

Fitness expert Derek Bees argued in a column this week that the “fat acceptance” movement is causing some Americans to give up on life-saving exercise.

The University of Vermont hosted an event featuring “fat sex therapist” Sonalee Rashatwar last week.

Sofie Hagen, a comedian based in London, lost her cool on Twitter this week over a cancer research organization’s ad that highlighted the link between cancer and obesity.

The prestigious Johns Hopkins University hosted Health at Every Size author Linda Bacon on Wednesday evening.

Princeton University is set to host a “fat positive dinner” in February for students who self-identify as “fat.”

Colleges around the country are quietly dropping their “Fat Studies” courses, according to a report by Campus Reform.

Research scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston say they developed a promising new drug that curbs obesity without dieting and, based upon preliminary study findings, they may be on their way to unleashing a breakthrough for the millions who struggle with their weight.

University of North Alabama Professor Says Fat Professors Experience ‘Microaggressions’

Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) is planning to ban obese patients and smokers from having surgery unless they lose weight or kick the habit.

A project headed by Bradley University’s Women’s Studies program warns that losing weight could be “dangerous.”

A professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte recently penned an academic paper that argues that obesity should be “fashionable and fit.”

Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Mason Boycott-Owen report in The Sunday Times that cereal giant Kellogg’s has been funding studies that undermine official government warnings about the link between sugary cereals and obesity.

The “world’s heaviest woman” has shed half her weight — around a quarter of a tonne — in the two months she’s been in India for treatment, doctors said.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The extremely high inflow of immigrants is dragging young immigrants away from integrating into mainstream, middle-class American culture, and is pushing them to assimilate into the marginal culture of poverty-stricken minority communities, immigration experts say.

Welfare is much worse than a way of life for many Americans—it now appears to be a new way of death, according to an expanding body of data and social studies.

In one of its most inaccurate “fake news” Thanksgiving stories this year, the New York Times blamed America for migrant California farmworkers from Mexico having bad diets.

Pacific Islanders are upset over Disney’s portly depiction of demigod Maui in the studio’s upcoming animated film Moana.

Statistics have shown WalletHub that Americans are in fact becoming fatter.

This Saturday, the city of Lynwood, California challenged its residents to shed unwanted weight by introducing its seventh annual “Cash for Chunkers” challenge. The contest provides one driven team of “chunkers” with the chance to win $3,500.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is set to introduce its very own sugar tax in a bid to cajole government ministers into rolling out the tax country-wide. Drinks and snacks sold in cafes, shops and vending machines on NHS premises will

Media hysteria in the UK is normally the province of the tabloid papers and The Guardian, but now The Telegraph has got in on the act. It has taken a report ranking obesity as a major crisis and, in a