Media and Research Roundup: November 2020
September 1, 2020: Researchers looking at the effect of meal frequency on body weight find that there is little robust evidence that reducing meal frequency is beneficial, or that it has any effect on body weight.
September 10, 2020: A study finds that people who are most likely to binge eat due to the pandemic are young adults who have experienced weight stigma, regardless of gender or body weight.
September 23, 2020: A large study on the risk of hospitalization, ventilation, or death among US veteran patients with COVID-19 finds that neither high body mass index (BMI), Black race, Hispanic ethnicity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, nor smoking were associated with mortality. A related April 17, 2020 article from Wired explains how the idea that high BMI was a risk factor for COVID-19 patients may have come about.
September 25, 2020: Ragen Chastain explains why the premise of an article called The Habits of Successful Weight Losers is simply bad science.
September 30, 2020: Nylon talks about how some fat bodies have come to be seen as acceptable and others not acceptable and why it is important for all body types to be embraced.
October 2020: QuackWatch.org, a network of websites maintained by the Center for Inquiry focusing on health frauds, myths, fads, and misconduct, has posted as part of its reports on diet scams the book Health Risks of Weight Loss with the permission of the author Frances M. Berg.
October 2020: The most recent issue of Fat Studies (Volume 9, Issue 3) is now available, with a focus on the future fat people, fat bodies and society.
October 2020: A French-Canadian website Grossophobie.ca is posting a list of books (in French and English) concerning fatphobia and living in a fat body.
October 8, 2020: Emily Thomas, on The Food Chain podcast, interviews fat activists Esther D. Rothblum, Sonya Renee Taylor, Sabrina Strings, and Sigrun Daielsdottir about living in a fatphobic society.
October 16, 2020: ASDAH's (Association for Size Diversity and Health) new website is here!