Educational Resources
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ADHD Research
Neurofeedback as a Treatment Intervention in ADHD: Current Evidence and Practice
Authors: Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert, Diede Smit, Miguel Garcia Pimenta, Martijn Arns
Health At Every Size Resources & Activism
Please note this list is NOT comprehensive! There are so many amazing activists out there, these are a few of the many great people sharing their work!
Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology
Aubrey Gordon AKA Your Fat Friend
Body Liberation with Lindley Ashline
J Aprileo: Comfy Fat
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Resources for Advocacy (for yourself and to be an ally)
Resources created and compiled by: Ragen Chastain, Louise Metz, & Tiana Dodson
What to Say at the Doctor's Office:
Author: Ragen Chastain
Advocating For Yourself At The Doctor As A Fat Person Isn't Easy - Here's Where to Start
Author: J Aprileo
Health At Every Size Community x
7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias
Author: Aubrey Gordon
What Thin Privilege Really Means
Author: Christy Harrison
Thin Privilege, Rage and the Spotlight
Author: Lindley Ashline
The Binge- Restrict Cycle
Fasting for 24 Hours Heightens Reward From Food and Food-Related Cues
Authors: Jameason D Cameron, Gary S Goldfield, Graham Finlayson, John E Blundell, Eric Doucet
Effects of Deprivation on Hedonics and Reinforcing Value of Food
Authors: Kelley Strohacker, Katie C. Carpenter, Brian K. Mcfarlin
Fasting Increases Risk for Onset of Binge Eating and Bulimic Pathology: a 5-Year Prospective Study
Authors: Eric Stice, Kendra Davis, Nicole P Miller, C Nathan Marti
Effects of Weight Cycling
Consequences of Weight Cycling: An Increased Disease Risk
Authors: Kelley Strohacker, Katie C. Carpenter, Brian K. Mcfarlin
A Descriptive Study of Weight Loss Maintenance
Authors: S Sarlio-Lähteenkorva, A Rissanen, J Kaprio
Medical, Metabolic and Psychologica Effects of Weight Cycling
Authors: K D Brownell, J Rodin
Weight Cycling and it's Cardiometabolic Impact
Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals
Authors: Eric M Matheson, Dana E King, Charles J Everett
Weight Fluctuations and Risk for Metabolic Synrome in an Adult Cohort
Authors: A-C Vergnaud, S Bertrais, J-M Oppert, L Maillard-Teyssier, P Galan, S Hercberg, S Czernichow
Weight Variability and Incident Disease in Older Women: the Iowa Women's Health StudySA French,
Authors: SA French, AR Folsom, RW Jeffery, W Zheng, PJ Mink, JE Baxter
Variability of Body Weight and Health Outcomes in the Framingham Population
Authors: L Lissner, P M Odell, R B D'Agostino, J Stokes 3rd, B E Kreger, A J Belanger, K D Brownell
Effects of Weight Bias & Weight Stigma
Author: Abby Bleistein
Everything We Know About Obesity is Wrong
Author: Michael Hobbes
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
Authors: Lindo Bacon, Lucy Aphramor
Authors: Paul A McAuley, Steven N Blair
Authors: Jess Haines, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Marla E Eisenberg, Peter J Hannan
Advancing Social Connection as a Public Health Priority in the United States
Authors: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Theodore F. Robles, David A. Sbarra
Weight Teasing Among Adolescents: Correlations with Weight Status and Disordered Eating Behaviors
Authors: Jess Haines, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Marla E Eisenberg, Peter J Hannan
Obesity Stigma: Important Considerations for Public Health
Authors: Rebecca M. Puhl, Chelsea A. Heuer
Weight Cycling
Evidence of Focusing on Habits & Behaviors (vs. Focusing on Weight)
Variability of Body Weight and Health Outcomes in the Framinham Population
Authors: L Lissner, P M Odell, R B D'Agostino, J Stokes 3rd, B E Kreger, A J Belanger, K D Brownell
What's Wrong with the War on Obesity?
Authors: Lily O’Hara, Jane Taylor
Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals
Authors: Eric M Matheson, Dana E King, Charles J Everett
Authors: Rachel P Wildman, Paul Muntner, Kristi Reynolds, Aileen P McGinn, Swapnil Rajpathak, Judith Wylie-Rosett, MaryFran R Sowers
Evidence on Long-Term Weight-Loss Efforts
Methods for Voluntary Weight Loss and Control
NIH Technology Assessment Conference Panel
Medicare's Search for Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets are not the Answer
Authors: Traci Mann, A Janet Tomiyama, Erika Westling, Ann-Marie Lew, Barbra Samuels, Jason Chatman
Authors: Long Ge, Behnam Sadeghirad, Geoff D C Ball, Bruno R da Costa, Christine L Hitchcock, Anton Svendrovski, Ruhi Kiflen, Kalimullah Quadri, Henry Y Kwon, Mohammad Karamouzian, Thomasin Adams-Webber, Waleed Ahmed, Samah Damanhoury, Dena Zeraatkar, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Ross T Tsuyuki, Jinhui Tian, Kehu Yang, Gordon H Guyatt, Bradley C Johnston
Correspondence to: B C Johnston
Genetic Impact on Weight
The Response to Long-Term Overfeeding in Identical Twins
Authors: C Bouchard, A Tremblay, J P Després, A Nadeau, P J Lupien, G Thériault, J Dussault, S Moorjani, S Pinault, G Fournier
The Body-Mass Index of Twins Who Have Been Reared Apart
Authors: A J Stunkard, J R Harris, N L Pedersen, G E McClearn
The Role of Genes in the Current Obesity Epidemic
Author: Yung Seng Lee
Corruption, Big Pharma & Diet
The Opioid Epidemic: It's Time to Place Blame Where it Belongs
Author: Ronald Hirsch
Lessons from Corporate Influence in the Opioid Epidemic
Author: Jonathan H. Marks
FDA Official Who Approved OxyContin, Later Got $400,000 Gig at Purdue Pharma a Year Later
Author: Allana Akhtar
Obesity Task Force Linked to WHO Takes "Millions" from Drug Firms
Author: Ray Moynihan
Everything We Know About Obesity is Wrong
Author: Michael Hobbes
Thin Privilege and Unlearning Anti-Fat Bias
7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias
Author: Aubrey Gordon
What Thin Privilege Really Means
Author: Christy Harrison
Thin Privilege, Rage and the Spotlight
Author: Lindley Ashline
Resources for Movement or Physical Activity at a Higher Weight
Bevin Branlandingham
Joy Cox, Bunmi Alo
Ragen Chastain
J Aprileo
Eating Disorder Resources
Debunking the Utility of the BMI
Body Mass Index and Nine Year Mortality in Disabled and Non-Disabled Older Individuals
Authors: Alexander M Kulminski, Konstantin G Arbeev, Irina V Kulminskaya, Svetlana V Ukraintseva, Kenneth Land, Igor Akushevich, Anatoli I Yashin
Body Mass Index, Disability and 13 Year Mortality in Older French Adults
Authors: Mohamed Berraho, Chakib Nejjari, Chantal Raherison, Youness El Achhab, Nabil Tachfouti, Zineb Serhier, Jean François Dartigues, Pascale Barberger-Gateau
The Cost of Using BMI as a Proxy for Health
Authors: Linda Bacon, Lucy Aphramor
Habituation
Habituation as a Determinant of Human Food Intake
Authors: Leonard H Epstein, Jennifer L Temple, James N Roemmich, Mark E Bouton
Author: Deb Burgard
Authors: Pamela K Keel, Lindsay P Bodell, K Jean Forney, Jonathan Appelbaum, Diana Williams
Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance in Obesity: Possible Insights from Anorexia Nervosa
Authors: Loren M Gianini, B. Timothy Walsh, Joanna Steinglass, Laurel Mayer
Body Dysmorphia
Recent Advances in Understanding and Managing Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Authors: Georgina Krebs, Lorena Fernández de la Cruz, David Mataix-Cols
Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Authors: Aoife Rajyaluxmi Singh, David Veale
Books
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Dopesick by Beth Macy
Books referenced on social media posts
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Dopesick by Beth Macy
Shows
Dopesick on Hulu
Podcasts
Maintenance Phase (hosts: Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes)
She's All Fat (host: Sophia Carter-Kahn)
Foodpsych (host: Christy Harrison)
Food Heaven Podcast (hosts: Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones)
Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back (hosts: Marquisele Mercedes, Da'Shaun Harrison, Caleb Luna, Bryan Guffey, and Jordan Underwood)
Comfort Food Podcast (hosts: Amy Palanjian and Virginia Sole-Smith)