Aubrey Gordon's 'You Just Need to Lose Weight' Is Our January Book Club Pick
The former SELF columnist debunks harmful—and all-too-common—myths about fat people.
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The former SELF columnist debunks harmful—and all-too-common—myths about fat people.
Weight shaming and sizeism have no place in the church. It's time to embrace all body types, celebrating every shape and size.
Parenting advice on favoritism, grandparents, and siblings.
As if on cue, the day before the release of Aubrey Gordon's new book, “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new recommendation on how to treat children it deemed obese. While the new instruction is not wholly alarming—it opens by encouraging health providers to consider the "complex genetic, physiologic, socioeconomic, and environmental contributors" of their patients—it does allow for consideration of...
In “You Just Need to Lose Weight” the Maintenance Phase co-host and author of Your Fat Friend wrote 20 short, sourced arguments you can hand to your mom (and your doctor) about fatness.