In 1969, activists created The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. The organization is “dedicated to protecting the rights and improving the quality of life for fat people,” as ...

We've asked Tigress Osborn, the soon to be chair of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) in America, to explore the history of the movement for us. NAAFA is an organisation ...

A fat activist explains why she objects to the medicalization of larger bodies and the idea that obesity is a disease.

Doctors and scientists generally follow the narrative that larger people should be referred to as "people with obesity" and that obesity should be treated as a disease just like any other—but ...

When James Joyce's short story collection Dubliners was published on June 15th 1914 it was the end of a long and tortuous ...

Palmer, author of “Brain Energy” and director of the Metabolic and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital, recommended the ketogenic diet, a low-carbohydrate, high-fat eating plan ...

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

Study Reveals Intensive Blood Pressure Control Reduces Risk of Cognitive ImpairmentA new study shows that only 3½ years of ...

Unlike previous military campaigns in Gaza, there is no significant strand of Israeli society claiming victory, and a ...

The proposals would see alcohol labeling come closer to that for non-alcoholic beverages: with serving sizes, calorie counts, ...