OBESITY

Harvard to offer course on ‘Fat Talk and Thin Ideals’

The course will look at “the emergence of pervasive weight stigma—as manifest in ‘fat shaming’ and even in policy i…

By Elad Vaida
Dec 13, 2024

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: 'Diet culture' course teaches UVA students to call people 'fat' to avoid being 'fatphobic'

The professor also argued that people are 'not responsible for [their] weight.'

By Kaia Lehenbauer '26
Mar 15, 2023

Professor says people are healthy at any size

A recent presentation, ‘Addressing Weight Stigma, Diet Culture, and Eating Disorders in Neurodiverse Clients,’ expr…

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Feb 21, 2023

WATCH: Universities enabling obesity are leading to recruitment crisis

Emily Sturge reports on the obesity epidemic contributing to the Army's recruiting crisis, fear of microaggressions…

By Emily Sturge '25
Jan 29, 2023

Universities dismiss obesity epidemic contributing to Army's recruiting crisis

The Army is expanding a program to help recruits meet height and weight standards, with the CDC reporting that the …

By Shelby Kearns
Jan 17, 2023

Doctors now cannot say 'morbidly obese'

The terms ‘handicapped,’ ‘morbidly obese,’ and ‘racial groups,’ are to be avoided, according to the American Medica…

By Antoinette Aho
Nov 24, 2021