Over the last 30 years, fatness has been defined as a risk factor for disease, then a disease in itself, then a global epidemic. What caused this rapid shift? Who’s gonna join our group of B-roll vigilantes? And did we just hear Morgan Freeman?

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Fat Politics
Killer Fat
The End of the Obesity Epidemic
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Moral Panics

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American Obesity Association PSA
AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease
Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications
For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions
Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms
Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer
Research: How Americans’ Biases Are Changing (or not) Over Time
Satcher: Obesity Reaching Crisis Levels
Do Photographic Images of Obese Persons Influence Antifat Attitudes?
Did the American Medical Association make the correct decision classifying obesity as a disease?
What exactly is a disease?
The “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”: Health Crisis or Social Construction?
Fears of a fat planet overblown, skeptics say
An Unjust War: The Case Against the Government’s War on Obesity
Expanding Definitions of Obesity May Harm Children

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