Media & Research Roundup - June 2026
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By Bill and Terri Weitze
CONTENT NOTE: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language. Websites hosting the articles linked below may allow advertisements for weight loss products and/or otherwise problematic ads.
May 2026: This recent study suggests that experienced weight stigma in the health care setting and internalized weight bias may negatively impact trust in health care providers and increase health care avoidance.
May 2026: Researchers look at the impact that weight stigma in a healthcare setting has on male patients and how it can lead to medical care avoidance and a weaker patient-provider relationship.
May 2026: A small study (21 participants) finds that Black women are affected by weight stigma in family, educational, and workplace environments.
May 13, 2026: A recent study looks at how social norms about body size and weight influence women’s everyday health decisions, and cause harm due to society’s marginalization of people based on size and weight.
May 23, 2026: Jasper Peach, an Australian writer and disability activist, talks about how they find body neutrality to be a more comfortable fit than body positivity. They discuss writing their children’s book, My Body Is My Home, which has body neutrality as its theme.
May 29, 2026: CBS News offers an update on Southwest Airlines’ roll back of its second seat policy for large travelers, including what is changing. This article focuses on what NAAFA has to say about the change in policy.
May 30, 2026: TikToker and plus-size activist Samyra Miller calls out NYX Cosmetics for not including fat models as part of their campaign for a new line of “Fat Oil Body” products.
June 2026: Weight stigma aimed at pregnant and post-partum women can interfere with maintaining healthy activity levels and nutritional goals, especially when the stigma comes from loved ones, according to a study published in Midwifery.
June 1, 2026: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to roll back the efforts to reduce weight stigma and discrimination in public health, ignoring decades of science showing that fat shaming does not encourage weight loss and that fat does not necessarily mean unhealthy.
June 2, 2026: New research finds that teasing about weight by female relatives has an especially large (negative) impact on adolescents.
June 2, 2026: It may seem basic, but sometimes it’s good to revisit how comments about weight and dieting should be avoided; this list also offers some ideas for what to say instead (if you absolutely can’t just mind your own business).
June 5, 2026: Michael Yafi, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist, suggests the use of art history depicting positive images of large bodies to foster compassion and reduce weight bias among healthcare providers.
