Over the last 30 years, fatness has been defined as a risk factor for disease, then a disease in itself, then a global epidemic. What caused this rapid shift? Who’s gonna join our group of B-roll vigilantes? And did we just hear Morgan Freeman?
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- American Obesity Association PSA
- AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease
- Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications
- For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions
- Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms
- Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer
- Research: How Americans’ Biases Are Changing (or not) Over Time
- Satcher: Obesity Reaching Crisis Levels
- Do Photographic Images of Obese Persons Influence Antifat Attitudes?
- Did the American Medical Association make the correct decision classifying obesity as a disease?
- What exactly is a disease?
- The “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”: Health Crisis or Social Construction?
- Fears of a fat planet overblown, skeptics say
- An Unjust War: The Case Against the Government’s War on Obesity
- Expanding Definitions of Obesity May Harm Children
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