The mass-produced wholegrain bread you buy from the supermarket isn’t harmful to your health, even though it’s an ‘ultra-processed’ food. Your overall diet matters more.
Does weight come back when you stop taking drugs like Ozempic? Are these medications simply another (expensive) form of yo-yo dieting? Here’s what we know so far.
Although you get your fatty acid levels routinely checked at the doctor’s, rarely do clinicians and researchers consider the effects of their potentially harmful byproducts.
Ads for targeted fat loss, especially
for belly fat, are everywhere on social media. But is there any evidence to support this type of ‘spot reduction’?
Despite the prevalent view that people with large bodies should simply eat less and move more, it’s nearly impossible to fight our genetic heritage or other factors that are not within our control.
Australian of the year Taryn Brumfitt has called for doctors to avoid raising the issue of weight in consultations about other matters. We asked the experts if they should – or not.
Kris Kneen’s ‘exquisite’ memoir about living in a fat body is deeply intimate. It somehow feels even more intimate than their books about sex and desire.
Vinita Srivastava, La Conversation Canada; Boké Saisi, La Conversation Canada et Kikachi Memeh, La Conversation Canada
As the use of Ozempic, a drug for diabetes, slams into the mainstream as a weight-loss method, will the drug’s use impact our concept of fatness? And how does fatness intersect with race and class?
The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently released new obesity management guidelines in order to help address the growing obesity crisis in children.
By only discussing fatphobia in the context of eating disorders, Taylor Swift illustrates how deeply individualized and depoliticized white feminism is.
Research has been inconclusive on the degree to which drinking alcohol leads to the growth of harmful fat. But a new study suggests that beer and spirits are far bigger culprits than wine.