We're Here, We're Fat, Get Used To It?
Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum, co-editors of The Fat Studies Reader, tell Brian Lehrer we need to stop obsessing about weight -- and start accepting fat people.Brian Lehrer: First off, Esther, we...
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Exercise Will Set You Free. Not!
Ask anyone the best way drop a few pounds and chances are you'll hear that if you exercise, you'll lose weight. But many adults who exercise at the gym or run or bike say their weight has remained the...
View ArticleDIY Checkup: Taking Control of Our Health
What does "healthy" mean in America today? From trendy diets to calorie-burning shoes, we get so many confusing messages about what we need to do to be healthy that we lose sight of the goal. Maybe...
View ArticleCouncilman Fighting Fast Food Gets Ribbed for His Weight
A Queens lawmaker who's pushing a bill to fight childhood obesity is getting attention for being overweight himself.Colleagues of Councilman Leroy Comrie, who is estimated to be about 300 pounds, came...
View ArticleFood Pyramid is Ancient History
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to knock down the 20-year-old nutritional food pyramid and replace it with a simpler guide to healthy eating — a plate. Today the USDA will unveil how...
View ArticleAnti-Obesity Drug Approved by FDA Advisory Panel
This week a Federal Drug Administration panel backed the approval of a weight loss drug called Qnexa. Strictly intended for use by clinically overweight people with BMIs over 27kg/m2, Qnexa is a...
View ArticleToo Fat to Work as a Health Professional?
Citizens Medical Center is, by most measures, a respected and respectable hospital. A non-profit, their mission is to serve their community of South Texas. And in their mission, they’ve been mostly...
View ArticleObesity Intervention from Your Doctor
How would you react, if during a regular doctor’s checkup, your physician told you that you were obese? That’s what the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has suggested in a new set of...
View ArticleMichael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Pulitzer Prize–winning The New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moss describes the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. In Salt Sugar Fat: How the...
View ArticleThe Book of Schmaltz
Michael Ruhlman sings the praises of schmaltz (or rendered chicken fat), a staple ingredient in traditional Jewish cuisine. But schmaltz is at risk of disappearing from use due to modern dietary trends...
View ArticleEating Fat Doesn't Make Us Fat
For decades, many people have believed that fat, especially saturated fat, makes us gain weight, but that turns out not to be true. Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz documents how the low-fat...
View ArticleJim Gaffigan Got Cut Like an Abercrombie Model
The comedian and author of Dad Is Fat was only fat for a little while. On this week’s episode, Gaffigan deconstructs the beauty myth; talks gymnastics; takes a call from a fan of his yoga videos; and...
View ArticleCrazy Over Fat
Harriet Brown, an associate professor of magazine journalism at Syracuse University and the author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia and Body of Truth: How Science, History, and...
View ArticleWhy Fat Is So Misunderstood
Our latest Please Explain is all about fat with Dr. Sylvia Tara, author of The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You. Dr. Tara argues that...
View ArticleWhat Fighting Big Tobacco Can Teach Us About Taxing Sugary Drinks
In 1994, Dr. Kelly Brownell had a bit of a radical idea for the times. In an op-ed written for The New York Times, Dr. Brownell proposed a tax on unhealthy foods."While the government has imposed...
View ArticleHow To Be Fat (with Lindy West)
The author of "Shrill" and leader of the fat acceptance movement says, "As a fat person, you’re always under surveillance when you’re eating."
View ArticleThe business case for hiring the fat and the ugly
Studies say the good looking are more successful but that is not a good way to recruit, says Lucy Kellaway Studies say the good looking are more successful but that is not a good way to recruit, says...
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Huge new study casts doubt on conventional wisdom about fat and carbs
An international study is casting doubt on the wisdom of eating lots of carbohydrates. Photo by Flickr user Dani Armengol GarretaFat, once a dirty word when it came to diet, has been edging back toward...
View ArticleHow Racism Ended a Renaissance of Weight
Back in the 16th century, a question captured Europe’s artistic and philosophical elite: what is beauty? Proportions, facial features, and fat were all dissected in search of the divine ideal. The...
View ArticleThe F-Word
Early in the pandemic, weight was named a risk factor for severe covid-19. But what if the greater risk is poor medical treatment for fat people? This week, On the Media dives into the fictions,...
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