How A Doctor’s Allyship Is Changing My Life

Medical avoidance was the norm after my teenage years. The loathing and judgement from medical systems was too much. Avoidance put me in the hospital twice. I could not bear the thought of going to the doctors. I would cry at the thought of it. If for some reason I had to go, the entire time was panic-inducing.

Fast forward to 2020 and my forties. I was a few years into learning about Health at Every Size (HAES), weight biases, and Fat Liberation. I decided to take the leap and sought after a weight-neutral doctor. After researching in my area, I found one.

Activism, Allyship, Guest Posts, Health At Every Size, Healthcare, MedicalDarliene HowellJanuary 25, 2022DawnClark, Medical, fatphobia, allyship

Media and Research Roundup - December 2021

For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media and Research Roundup. This issue features: Fat myths, Bo-Po vs fat acceptance, healthism and ableism attitudes, traveling while fat, sharing fat history in an archive and more!

Activism, Medical, From the Newsletter, Health At Every Size, Healthcare, Legislation, TravelTerri and Bill WeitzeJanuary 6, 2022Body Neutrality, weight stigma, AnnetteRichmond, barbara altman bruno, BarbaraBruno, TigressOsborn

Media and Research Roundup - October 2021

For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media and Research Roundup. This issue features: debunking the science of the cause of fatness (or are they?), the real stats about COVID-19 risks to fat folx, Fat Studies focuses on fat activism and more!

Activism, Media, Medical, From the Newsletter, Health At Every SizeTerri and Bill WeitzeNovember 3, 2021Ragen Chastain, Paul Campos, Body Positivity, Body Neutrality, size acceptance, Linda Evangelista, The Harder They Fall, fat shaming, weight stigma, Fat Studies, Max Airborne, Queen Latifah

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 7: The Early 21st Century

HAES® and the war against obesity responded increasingly to each other by the 21st century. The war against obesity ramped up to what sociologist Abigail Saguy referred to as a moral panic, from the late 1990s on. This post discusses the history of Health at Every Size in the early 21st century.

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 6: The Late 1990s

The late 1990s found increasing pressure from pro-weight-loss groups against the fledgling anti-diet, pro-health forces. This post discusses the history of Health at Every Size in the late 1990s.

History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoMarch 4, 2021NAAFA, american obesity association, jenny craig, nutrisystem, glenn gaesser, cheri erdman, barbara altman bruno, ahelp, elizabeth scott, connie sobczak, cinder ernst, marilyn wann

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 5: The Early 1990s

The early 1990s looked bad for diet programs and products and good for the developing anti-diet movement—a term possibly coined by Overcoming Overeating’s Carol Munter in response to a press query. This post discusses the history of Health at Every Size in the early 1990s.

History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoFebruary 4, 2021NAAFA, carol munter, donna ciliska, fat underground, fat feminist caucus, council on size and weight discrimination, cswd, lynn mcafee, jaclyn parker, health canada, international no diet day, indd, hugs program

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 4: The 1980s

The decade of the 1980s was characterized in part by Reagonomics and a “greed is good” business ethos; the burgeoning size of Americans along with a greater societal focus on physical fitness; women increasingly entering and competing in the workforce; the emergence of AIDS; the explosive rise of personal computing, and the end of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War. This post discusses the history of Health at Every Size in the 1980s.

History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoJanuary 12, 2021NAAFA, bob schwartz, William Bennett MD, janet polivy, kim chernin, alice ansfield, paul ernsberger, paul haskew, ellyn satter, susan kano, lynn meletiche, deb burgard, esther rothblum, laura brown

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 3: The 1970s

TRIGGER WARNING: DISCUSSION OF WEIGHT CYCLING INDUSTRY IN THE 1970s

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 3: The 1970s

The 1970s saw the building of feminism, iconoclasm, introspection, a peace movement regarding Vietnam, and mounting pressure on women to be thinner. Multiple studies and programs around "weight management" come to the forefront. But others look at fat as a matter of biology or being a feminist issue with publications from Vivian Mayer (also called Aldebaran), Judy Freespirit, Susie Orbach and Carol Munter.

History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoDecember 4, 2020The60s, LewLouderback, BillFabrey, NAAFA, EthanAllenSims

The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 2: The 1960s

In Vermont, Ethan Allen Sims experimented on students and later, prisoners, to test intentional weight gain of 20-30 pounds. One subject required 7,000 calories a day to maintain weight gain. All the subjects doubled their normal daily intake of food and required an extra 2,000 calories a day to maintain their extra weight. Like the subjects of Keys’ weight-loss experiment in the 1940s, Sims’ subjects also got lethargic and apathetic, and rapidly returned to their pre-experiment weights once they stopped overeating.

History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoNovember 2, 2020The60s, LewLouderback, BillFabrey, NAAFA, EthanAllenSims

The History of Health at Every Size®: An Introduction

Health at Every Size® (HAES®) exists because of prejudice against extra weight/fatness. This prejudice has occurred quite recently in the history of humans, since a relatively adequate and reliable supply of food has only been available during the past two to three centuries.

History, Medical, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoOctober 1, 2020Health At Every Size, HAES

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