NAAFA Community Voices Blog

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History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every Size Barbara Altman Bruno History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every Size Barbara Altman Bruno

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.

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History, From the Newsletter NAAFA Admin History, From the Newsletter NAAFA Admin

NAAFA Chronicles 58: NAAFA Achievement Awards, Weight Loss Surgery and the Meaning of Fat Activism

TRIGGER WARNING: SOME DISCUSSION OF WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY

NAAFA Chronicles 58: NAAFA Achievement Awards, Weight Loss Surgery and the Meaning of Fat Activism

The NAAFA Chronicles are a piece of size acceptance history and give you a look at what was happening in NAAFA during a specific period. This posting, we are looking at the Fall, 1983 issue of the NAAFA Newsletter that discusses a wide range of information related to fat community.

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