Media & Research Roundup - May 2025
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By Bill and Terri Weitze
CONTENT WARNING: 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.
April 8, 2025: An article in Psychology Today discusses how the phrase “I feel fat” is not only inaccurate, (fat is a physical characteristic not a feeling), but can be harmful to oneself and to others who live in a fat body.
April 8, 2025: A new study finds that a type of fat found in the lining of blood vessels is not the cause of damage and inflammation, as commonly believed, but instead regulates blood vessel tone and the ability to dilate or contract; reduction of this fat can cause inflammation, clots, and death.
April 9, 2025: A therapist working with eating disorders discusses how GLP-1 drugs are unraveling decades of work to help people achieve trust in their bodies.
April 13, 2025: Some are finding Canada’s new guidelines for the treatment of childhood obesity to be problematic. While the guidelines address weight stigma, they also recommend use of drugs and even weight-loss-surgery for children as young as 12 or 13.
April 17, 2025: Medscape talks about the harm weight bias can cause patients and warns people in the healthcare industry against attributing medical conditions to weight.
April 18, 2025: Offering tips for a weight-inclusive practice, this article discusses the impact on the patient of weight stigma in a healthcare setting.
April 20, 2025: The Guardian reports on the impending passing of Weight Watchers for a number of reasons, including that diets don’t work.
April 23, 2025: Fat patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement have comparable outcomes to “healthy” BMI patients, while underweight patients may face greater long-term mortality risk.
April 25, 2025: Metformin, a common diabetes drug, has been found to reduce pain from knee osteoarthritis in fat patients. Whether or not the drug will also work for non-fat patients was not studied; seems like that would be good to know.
May 13, 2025: A new study shows that people who lose weight from midlife to late life had an elevated risk of developing dementia. For participants who did not lose weight, the overweight and obese categories had lower risk of dementia than the other participants.
