Explore the sensationalism of fatphobic news as the hosts dissect how alarmist narratives shape public perception. Learn to navigate academic research by understanding the peer-review process and distinguishing between various study types. They tackle misleading weight loss claims, revealing ethical pitfalls and the importance of critically analyzing methodologies. Simplifying complex research language is also highlighted, ensuring everyone can access and understand vital information on health beyond just weight.

The podcast dives into the controversy surrounding the supposed obesity epidemic, questioning if it's real or just a societal myth. It scrutinizes the historical biases behind the Body Mass Index and reveals its harmful roots in racist ideologies. The discussion challenges traditional views on health and weight, emphasizing behaviors over numbers on a scale. Ultimately, it tackles the stigma faced by larger individuals and advocates for a more compassionate, nuanced understanding of body positivity.

This episode is inspired by a member of my group program, Fierce Fatty Academy, who shared that her doctor shamed her son's weight. Children are going to be exposed to weight bias, so what can we do when that happens? And what can we do to make sure that we don't unintentionally cause them to stress about their weight and food? Isn’t childhood “ob*sity” causing massive issues in society meaning we need to control children's weights? BONUS: List of 39 books for kids to adolescents that spread the body diversity message. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/132 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org Filter ads by weight loss: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfB-8nYsfGK/ ​​Children are 242 times more likely to suffer from an eating disorder than they are from type 2 diabetes. If you took a sample of 100,000 children, only 12 would have type 2 diabetes...but 2,900 would meet the criteria for an eating disorder.⁠ - https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17940755158451275/ By age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape. 40-60% of elementary school girls (ages 6-12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat. This concern endures through life (Smolak, 2011). PLUS OTHER STATS: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/sites/default/files/ResourceHandouts/GeneralStatistics.pdf “The best-known environmental contributor to the development of eating disorders is the sociocultural idealization of thinness.” PLUS OTHER STATS: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/statistics-research-eating-disorders Division of responsibility: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/ Books celebrating body diversity for kids 45 Pounds (More or Less) by Kelly Barson Animals Brag About Their Bottoms by Maki Sato Body Image Because All Bodies Are Great Bodies by Hohn, Tierra C is for Consent by Eleanor Morrison Camp Utopia and The Forgiveness Diet by Jenny Ruden Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls by Sonya Renee Taylor Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen Deenie by Judy Blume Dumplin' by Julie Murphy El Deafo by Cece Bell I Am Confident, Brave & Beautiful: A Coloring Book for Girls by Hopscotch Girls I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley It's Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr Jane, The Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt Karma Khullar's Mustache by Kristi Wientge Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli Listening to My Body: A Guide to Helping Kids Understand the Connection Between Their Sensations by Gabi Garcia Love Your Body: Your Body Can Do Amazing Things! by Jessica Sanders Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald No Combina by Monica Brown Puddin' (Dumplin') by Julie Murphy Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall Smile by Raina Telgemeier Stand Straight, Ella Kate by Kate Klise Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell Sticks & Stones by Abby Cooper Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince, Elaine Deprince The Body Image Book for Girls Love Yourself and Grow up Fearless by Markey, Charlotte N. The Body Image Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Girls Develop a Healthy Body Image In An Image-Obsessed World by Julia V. Taylor MA The Colors of Us by Karen Katz The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self by Katty Kay The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens: A Non-Diet, Body Positive Approach to Building a Healthy Relationship with Food by Elyse Resch The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake The Summer of Jordi Perez (and The Best Burgers in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding The Ugly One by Leanne Statland Ellis To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson Your Body is Awesome: Body Respect for Children by Sigrun Danielsdottir Your Child’s Weight - Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter

Struggling with accepting your body and unsure why? Could it be that you’re surrounded by people who think dieting is super awesome and fatness is icky? If you are friends with folks who make casual references to thin being better than fat or even full-out fat jokes then this episode is for you! I’m giving you tactics for dealing with them and am also talking about other ways to improve your levels of body satisfaction. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/131 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org "Bridget Everett show Somebody Somewhere: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12759100/ Post on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCeIFAO491/"

I asked the question to my IG followers “What do you think when IE/HAES/anti-diet dieticians share “what I eat in a day” posts?” and the response was overwhelming. Y’all hate it. Today we are talking about that, and the other things that dieticians who care about fat folks might get wrong that can harm fat clients and followers. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/130 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Dive into the idea that health is largely influenced by societal factors, debunking the myth of an ideal body. The discussion reveals how ableism and healthism affect perceptions of well-being and introduces a holistic view of health. Personal anecdotes lighten the conversation as the hosts emphasize the importance of social justice in health. Explore how constructs like adulthood and gender shape our beliefs about health, and challenge misconceptions around weight and fitness. The episode is a compelling call for self-acceptance and a broader understanding of what it means to be healthy.

We hear so often how awful fatness is and how fat people are all going to imminently die and being fat is the worst thing ever…but is it? Are there any good sides to fatness? What about the health and mortality of fat people? Are we in fact, at an advantage? In this episode I share 28 benefits of being fat, how many can you think of? TW: brief mention of O Words Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/128 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org Obese patients who fall have less injury severity but a longer hospital stay than normal-weight patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700636/ Why I Only Want to Have Sex with Fat Bodies: By Gina Tonic https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/sex/a32823682/fat-sex/ The Weight of Medical Authority: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge in the Obesity Epidemic, Rogers, Julia: https://www.proquest.com/openview/39a652352f0a180b82a29539ccd72f4e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 Study: Overweight People Live Longer https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer?fbclid=IwAR0pJyF7CaHV6deTttRdAjIWkcwu1tkDnVVBGrWn6jgVElIs4N5LpVgQkXQ ​​Rethinking Obesity: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327475628_Rethinking_Obesity by Paul Ernsberger Risk Factors for Hospitalization, Mechanical Ventilation, or Death Among 10 131 US Veterans With SARS-CoV-2 Infection: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770946?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weight-Stigma+Awareness+About+COVID-19%20-%204524753 Study – Body Size NOT a COVID-19 Risk Factor: https://danceswithfat.org/2020/10/05/study-body-size-not-a-covid-19-risk-factor/ Fat Dr post: ​​https://www.instagram.com/p/CeRCmdRIFIg/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D Fat groups: Fat Acceptance Cloud https://www.facebook.com/groups/584497762388427/?ref=share Fat Chat Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChatWithFatFeminists/?ref=share Chat with Fat Feminists: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChatWithFatFeminists/

I used to think I could channel David Copperfield and use illusion techniques to make people think that I was a size zero. Of course, I’d do all the normal things, avoid stripes, and wear black…but I also had some very weird ideas of things that would make me appear thin; like wearing clown shoes and eating food with teaspoons. Come join me as we commiserate with my younger horned-up teenager self and perhaps quit some of the things that you may still be doing to try and hide your fatness (only if you want to, that is!).

A companion piece to episode 122, today we are hearing from even more people about their experience pre and post-bariatric surgery. These people whose voices have been ignored and unheard and their testimonies are incredibly important. You don’t have to have listened to episode 122 but it would be helpful for more context. Giant trigger warning: death, bad health outcomes, general awful fat hate. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/126 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org "Episode 122: https://fiercefatty.com/122 IG post with stories and comments: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcoU5cqPv7e/ Palegingerpear: https://www.instagram.com/palegingerpear/ Nicola Salmon: https://www.instagram.com/fatpositivefertility/"

We are going on a wild ride today! From tall-haired religious leaders who say you need to stop bowing down to the refrigerator and instead bow down to god to Breatharians who think you can live just on air and energy from the universe. We are talking cults, MLMs, and weird religious groups and it’s a doozy. TW: starvation, abuse, coercion, child abuse, and death, eating disorders mention specific foods and calories. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/125 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org From NXIVM to 'The Way Down,' Cults Really Love a Dangerous Diet Culture: https://jezebel.com/the-way-down-cults-diet-culture-nxivm-1848848898?utm_campaign=Jezebel&utm_content=1651082543&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2oH2WLP20vM4hqZti7CyyMGmeVO7MrlFACuvIV7xDQhU9EldfWij0pmGc Gwen Shamblin’s Weigh Down Workshops Are Unfortunately Still Active: https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/do-the-weigh-down-workshops-still-exist-active Ex-members of Nxivm say leader Keith Raniere brainwashed women into starving themselves: https://www.insider.com/nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-brainwashed-women-into-starving-themselves-2020-10 NXVIM docs: The Vow and Seduced and CBC podcast Uncover LuLaRoe Founder Profits From Sending Consultants To Mexico For Weight Loss Surgery: https://www.ravishly.com/lularoe-founder-profits-sending-consultants-mexico-weight-loss-surgery Thousands of Women Say LuLaRoe’s Legging Empire Is a Scam: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-27/thousands-of-women-say-lularoe-s-legging-empire-is-a-scam The People Who Think Air Is Food: https://www.gq.com/story/breatharians-the-people-who-think-air-is-food Breatherian 60 Minute’s doc snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCuzUd4eC0 94: The Psychology of Hunger: https://fiercefatty.com/094 41: Is Diet Culture a Cult?: https://fiercefatty.com/041