MEDIUM // FEBRUARY 2021
Should we really be putting high BMI in the same eligibility category as pulmonary disease and cancer?
MEDIUM // FEBRUARY 2021
Should we really be putting high BMI in the same eligibility category as pulmonary disease and cancer?
MEDIUM // JANUARY 2021
Weight stigma in health care can impact the care people get for Covid-19
MEDIUM // MAY 2020
Men aren’t part of the body positivity movement, but they need to be.
ELEMENTAL // JANUARY 2020
There’s a movement outside of gyms to make fitness a safe space. Whether the industry will ever fully embrace body positivity remains an open question.
MEDIUM // OCTOBER 2019
Traditional media has come a long way on self-acceptance. But the message is muddied in online spaces.
MEDIUM // AUGUST 2019
Anorexia has serious implications at any weight, but heavier patients face a pervasive, harmful stigma
MEDIUM // APRIL 2019
Why people are giving up drinking, even when they don’t have a problem
MEDIUM // NOVEMBER 2018
As locavorism, veganism, and other healthy food trends took off, some of the people who pushed them the hardest suffered the most.
MEDIUM // JUNE, 2018
Our newest eating disorders feed off our cultural obsession with healthy diets.
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