Media & Research Roundup - February 2025
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By Bill and Terri Weitze with additional contributions from the NAAFA Communications Committee
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
January 8, 2025: In a possible move to rein in the increasingly crowded field of weight loss drugs, the FDA is recommending efficacy standards and safety guidelines for developers of drugs to treat type 2 diabetes and/or metabolic syndrome.
January 8, 2025: Various media outlets are reporting on a new study from the University of Virginia that finds aerobic fitness to be much more important for longevity than weight (not news).
January 14, 2025: Dr. Lesley Williams discusses the harm of focusing on weight in and out of healthcare and how providers and patients can adopt a weight-neutral approach.
January 14, 2025: An international panel (Commission on Clinical Obesity) proposes a new way for healthcare providers to diagnose “ob*sity” instead of the current method of relying on BMI. Ragen Chastain provides a “deep dive” into these diagnostic criteria.
January 14, 2025: Skye Cuseck tells of the debilitating pain she experienced for almost 10 years for which doctors only prescribed weight loss; and the change she experienced when being introduced to the concept of patient advocacy.
January 27, 2025: A study finds that older fat women, but not men, have a reduced risk of osteoporosis, whereas lower BMI is a risk factor for osteoporosis in both men and women.
January 27, 2025: Researchers find that about one-third of the weight loss from GLP-1 drugs (such as Wegovy, Zepbound, and Byetta) comes from lean mass, about the same as found with weight loss surgery survivors.
February 2025: The 11th Annual Weight Stigma Conference will take place July 6 and 7, 2025 in Australia and online. Submissions for oral presentations have already closed, but poster presentations will be considered on a rolling basis through June 20, 2025.
February 3, 2025: A supporter of Health at Every Size, Dr. Pebble Kranz reviews what is known and offers recommendations for fat people who are experiencing sexual dysfunction.
February 5, 2025: A study looks at why only some fat people develop metabolic disease and finds differences in adipose (fat) tissue and gene activity in those tissue’s cells.
