May 10, 2024 — Seeking better ways of coping with obesity has taken us on quite a twisted path. From more than 20 years we’ve been working on this disease, the last two have brought exponentially more change than we’ve ever seen. This week, in an outstanding report for the Atlantic, Daniel Engber offers up the clearest, most objective, […]
June 1, 2021 — Weight stigma is not just a U.S. problem. A whole series of new studies – two of them coming out just today – tell us that weight stigma is common across six countries. Not only do people find it in personal relationships, but they even find it common in healthcare. In fact, two thirds of […]
November 17, 2020 — RT-Mart is a hypermarket chain in Taiwan, having a measure of success in mainland China. But last week it set off a furor about fat shaming. For reasons unknowable, the chain replaced the usual S-M-L-XL-XXL clothing sizes with a shaming scheme. Slim, beautiful, rotten, extra rotten, and rotten to the core was the chain’s not […]
