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

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History, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoNAAFA, judith matz, bonnie bernell, american obesity association, fatima parker, barbara bruno, peggy elam, marilyn wann, julie gerberding, karen carrier, jon robison, ellen frankel, joann manson, national weight control registry, paul ernsberger, joanne ikeda, glenn gaesser, katherine flegal
The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 4: The 1980s
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, Medical, NAAFA Organization, Health At Every SizeBarbara Altman BrunoNAAFA, 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