Ep 18: 'Obesity': Unpacking 'risk' vs 'disease'
This episode delves into the definition(s) of 'disease' and 'risk factor' and how body size has come to be understood by various 'body size...
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Unpacking Weight Science
Mainstream weight science is built upon a plethora of assumptions. We now know that many of these assumptions about human body weight and health are flawed. Let me tell you why.
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19 episodes
Ep 17 Dieting, Illness and Malnutrition at Every Size
Malnutrition is a condition that has both short-term and long lasting consequences. In this episode I unpack the science of malnutrition, it...
Ep 16 Dietary Quality: Measurement, Magnitude and Meaning
In recent years nutrition research has moved from a focus on nutrients to a focus on foods and eating patterns. Dietary quality broadly refe...
Ep 15: When is a diet not a diet? Size Inclusivity and Medical Nutrition Therapy
Dietitians and nutrition professionals can feel like the ‘nutrition baby’ is being thrown out with the ‘diet bathwater’ when learning about...
Ep 14 Measuring Intuitive Eating: Why, How and When
This episode covers the development of the Intuitive Eating Scale, and it’s follow-up, the Intuitive Eating Scale 2 (IES2). I talk about the...
Ep 13 Size Inclusivity and Diffusion of Innovations Theory
One of my favourite theories of social science is the Diffusion of Innovations theory. It so beautifully explains how new ideas spread throu...
Ep 12 ”What the 5%!?” Type 2 diabetes and weight loss recommendations
We continually hear this magical 5% weight loss goal for people with type 2 diabetes, that losing 5% of your body weight is going to result...
Ep 11 Unboxing Wellness Marketing: The Science of Persuasion
This episode I take you through some components of the science of human persuasion with ‘unboxing wellness marketing’. As my following on In...
Ep 10 The Non-Diet Approach Model
In this episode I take you through the clinical model that I developed during my PhD research. This model is a weight-neutral, size inclusiv...
Ep 9 Morality Vs Ethics: Why Fat is Fraught
This episode delves into theories of human morality and medical ethics and their role in fat-phobia. I unpick the concepts and meaning of fa...
Ep 8 Theoretical vs Actual Weight Change: Industrialised Wishful Thinking
In this episode I compare and contrast what our mathematical formulas about energy requirements and weight loss say should be possible (ie t...
Ep 7 Weight-Neutral, Health-Enhancing Habits
Those benefits promised by those who recommend weight loss? *whispers* they're not actually because of the weight loss..... This episode of...
Ep 6 The Science of Self Compassion
In this episode I take you through the research and academic operationalisation of self compassion, some of its associations and effects on...
Article reading: 'What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology'
This article is a really important discussion of the issues around how we refer to different body types. Because not everyone has the time,...
Ep 5 Anatomy of a weight loss paper
A research paper is a piece of persuasive writing. This episode breaks down how all the pieces fit together, the expected rhetoric of weight...
Ep 4 Weight Bias, Stigma and Discrimination
This episode is an introduction and defines the terms, discusses their impact on healthcare, society and the lives of the people who are imp...
Ep 3 How we got here: BMI meets death
A history of the development of the BMI (including how 'obesity' ended up on child growth charts), how we discovered there was a relationshi...
Ep 2 Demystifying Assumptions, De-myth-defying Assumptions
This episode discusses the two main myths that perpetuate weight loss encouragement as well as the terms, weight centric, weight neutral, li...
Ep 1 Stuck in a Weight-Centric Operating System - by Unpacking Weight Science
Why is it that everyone seems to be pushing a weight-centric agenda? Weight centrism is a cultural norm, medical behemoth, and capitalist bo...