Linda...In the News
Note: Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight has received considerable press attention. Follow this link to read the press coverage.
1/2/12, World News with Diane Sawyer (ABC), Controversial ads encourge overweight children to lose weight. Do ads go too far?, Diane Sawyer.
1/1/12, GI News, The scoop on putting health first in 2012, Emma Stirling.
12/28/11, WebMD, When Did ‘Skinny’ Become the New Ideal?, Janet Helm.
12/16/11, Cooking Light, Being More Mindful When You Eat, Janet Helm.
11/23/11, California Medical Association, Holiday Eating, Greg Lucas.
11/23/11, Daily Bee, Stuff the turkey then yourself, Kathy Hubbard.
10/15/11, Blog Talk Radio (GirlTalk with Marlo): Health At Every Size: Obesity is NOT a Health Crisis!, Marlo.
10/10/11, More Magazine: Fat? Who Cares! Why Weight Doesn't Matter, an interview with Linda Bacon, Peter Jaret.
October, 2011, Proud 2B Me: Should You Diet? an interview with Linda Bacon, Claire Mysko.
August, 2011, Prevention Magazine: The End of Dieting, Marjorie Ingall.
8/27/11, Bold Magazine: Linda Bacon Says You Can Be Healthy at Every Size, Christopher Salute.
8/9/11, National Geographic: Health at Every Size: Live Healthy Without Dieting, Mary Schons.
7/28/11, Best of You Today: Love Your Body At Every Size, You Have the Power to Make or Break a Healthy Self Image.
7/12/11, Finding Fullness: An Interview with Linda Bacon: Your Body Says, "Diet? What Diet?", Kimber Simpkins.
7/1/11, Menta Magazine (Israel's leading health magazine): Dr. Linda Bacon, a U.S. expert on nutrition, shatters the myths about obesity and diet, Yaffa Shir-Raz (Article in Hebrew).
5/26/11, ABC-3: Battle Workplace Weight Discrimination, David Kaufman.
5/13/11, Examiner.com: Fitness at Every Size, Part One: Diets Don't Work, Shaunta Grimes.
5/2/11, Center for Consumer Freedom: BMI Report Cards Receive Failing Grades.
5/1/11, Associated Press (picked up by 100+ media outlets): Amid 'war on obesity,' skeptics warn of stigma, David Crary.
4/14/11, NBC New York: New Yoga Studio for Plus-Size Clientele in Union Square.
4/12/11, New York Daily News: Teacher starts 'plus-size' yoga studio after he gets tired of 'being the biggest person in the room', Kathleen Lucadamo.
3/25/11, Khaleej Times: Am I too fat?, Oksana Tashakova.
3/9/11, New York Times: Health at Every Size?, Renee Michael.
3/1/11, Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit: Health at Every Size: Weathering Resistance, Finding Strength, Golda Poretsky interviews Linda Bacon (approx 60 mins).
2/10/11, Chai FM radio: Changing the Weight Paradigm, Alicia Dorr.
2/3/11, Psych Central: Myths about Health at Every Size: Part 3 of an Interview with Linda Bacon, Margarita Tartakovsky.
2/2/11, Psych Central: Is Obesity Really Killing Us? Part 2 of an Interview with Linda Bacon, Margarita Tartakovsky.
2/2/11, The California Aggie: Study reveals flaws in weight-loss efforts, Michelle Murphy.
2/1/11, KFBK Afternoon News: Dieting leads to weight gain and diminished health, Kitty O'Neill.
2/1/11, Psych Central: Speaking to America about Health at Every Size: Part 1 of an Interview with Linda Bacon, Margarita Tartakovsky.
1/31/11, City Currents: Nutrition Expert Linda Bacon says Focus on Diets is Damaging.
1/26/11, KSRO NewsTalk 1350: Is Your Diet Making You Fat?, Curtiss Kim.
1/25/11, Davis Enterprise: Study: Focus on health, don't fixate on weight, Cory Golden.
1/24/11, University of California, Davis: Weight-loss focus is ineffective and harmful, study suggests, Pat Bailey.
12/30/10, Articles Base: Health at Every Size, Cassidy Knowlton.
11/25/10, Chico News & Review: Weight wars: Nutrition expert says you can be fat but fit, Stacey Kennelly.
11/4/10, The Daily Beast: Fat Studies Goes to College, Eve Binder.
11/2/10, PB Pulse: Do Mike and Molly 'gross' you out? Marie Claire blogger faces backlash, Leslie Gray Streeter.
9/28/10, Yahoo (Associated Content): Children's Health & Fitness: Tips from the Experts (see page 8), Len Saunders.
7/7/10, Daily Washington Post: Fashion: Full Figured Fashion Week draws plus-size crowd, Robin Givhan.
6/30/10, Daily Camera: When you don't fit in with the fittest city in America, Aimee Heckel.
5/22/10, Growing Access: Letter to the First Lady, Beth Herz and others.
5/10/10, City Currents: Health/Weight Focus for City College Author (see page 5), Patricia Arack.
4/18/10, The Observer: Why 'weight diversity' activists are standing up for the right to be fat, Louise Carpenter.
4/15/10, Washington Post: Me ... as I'm meant to be?, Linda Bacon.
4/13/10, AlterNet: Is Our Obsession with Weight Misguided? Here's What Really Matters When It Comes to Good Health, Jill Richardson.
3/31/10, AOL: Be Healthy at Any Size (and Stop Worrying About the Scale), Sarah Treleaven interviews Linda Bacon.
3/10, Skorch Magazine: Loving the Body You Have, Living the Life You Want, Shannon Russell.
3/22/10, KALW 91.7: Bay Area Residents Sound Off on the Health Care Bill.
3/15/10, New York Times: For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight, Harriet Brown.
2/24/10, New Media: Top Seven Fitness Myths, Rice Bank.
2/23/10, Good Morning America: The Great Weight Debate: Is It OK to Be Fat?.
2/23/10, ABC Nightline News: The Great Weight Debate: Is It OK to Be Fat? (text copy), Juju Chang and Eric Johnson.
2/23/10, The View: The Great Weight Debate, Whoopi Goldberg.
2/22/10, Newstalk 1350 KSRO Radio: Weight Discrimination on Airlines.
2/16/10, BBC Radio (segment is from 1:24:00 to 1:32:00): Clerks director Kevin Smith reveals he was asked to get off a plane in the US because he was too big for the seats, Rod Sharp.
2/16/10, WVON Radio: Should heavier people be charged more for airline seats?, Santita Jackson.
2/14/10, The Sunday Indian: The Big Debate [about size acceptance], Anu Gulmohar.
2/9/10, AOL Health: FDA Eyes Update on Food Labeling, Portion Sizes, Mary Beth Sammons.
1/29/10, Weightless (Psych Central): Why It's Time To Change Our Thinking About Weight: Q&A With Linda Bacon, Part One, Margarita Tartakovsky.
2/1/10, Weightless (Psych Central): Why Health Matters and Size Shouldn't: Q&A With Linda Bacon, Part Two, Margarita Tartakovsky.
1/19/10, Star Herald: Can you be fat and happy — and healthy?, Rick Willis.
1/14/10, It's Your Health Radio, WUML 91.5 FM: Health at Every Size: What does it mean for you?, with host Lisa Davis.
1/13/10, FOX40 tv news: Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General to be: Too fat to be qualified?
1/12/10, The Washington Post: More experts, more advice for the New Year, Jennifer LaRue Huget.
1/03/10, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: Fett - und sogar stolz darauf (I'm fat and even proud of it) - (in German), Katja Gelinsky.
12/29/09, AOL, That's Fit: Best Health News You Didn't Hear in 2009, Deborah Huso.
12/21/09, Womens' E-News: For the Skinny on Air Brushing, Labels Recommended, Juliette Terzieff.
12/17/09, Chicago Free Press: Are we tipping the scales? Weighing in on the issue of lesbians and obesity, Amy Wooten.
12/15/09, On Hold With Atchka: Health at Every Size: An Interview with Linda Bacon.
12/12/09, K-TIP Radio: Body Talk with Mimi, Mimi Stoneburner.
12/5/09, Emotional Eating Secrets:How to Recover Your Sanity When Food's Become a Four Letter Word: An Interview with Linda Bacon, Dr. Sharon Livingston.
11/30/09, El Pais newspaper: La hora del 'orgullo gordo'. Las personas obesas de EE UU reclaman que no se les discrimine - Dicen que su persecución es comparable al racismo o la homofobia (in Spanish), David Adelante.
11/16/09, KUOW Seattle 94.9 (NPR - The Conversation with Ross Reynolds): Incentivizing Weight Loss.
11/11/09, The Washington Post: It wouldn't kill you to lose a few pounds - or would it?, Jennifer LaRue Huget.
11/11/09, WVON radio, The Santita Jackson Show: Fat Acceptance: Has the Time Come?
11/8/09, The New York Times: Overweight Americans Push Back on Health Debate, Susan Saulny.
11/5/09, BBC World News Radio: Is Obesity-Cancer Link Fear-Mongering?
10/23/09, T Tyler Talks Radio show: The Truth About Weight Loss.
10/18/09, More Magazine: Health at Every Size, Jennifer Gruden.
10/16/09, iVillage: Not Only Skinny Models Destroy Our Self-Esteem, Plus-Size Models Do Too, Linda Vongkhamchanh.
10/12/09, LA Times: Diets? Not for these folks. Weary of counting calories, some overweight people have a new goal -- to be happy and healthy, not thin, Marni Jameson.
10/12/09, LA Times: Do extra pounds always equal extra risk? Researchers say plenty of fat people are healthy, and plenty of thin people are unhealthy, Marnell Jameson.
10/9/09, Toronto's Globe and Mail: We're having a fat moment, Sarah Boesveld.
9/28/09, Denver Post: More experts say fit and big can happily coexist, Sheba R. Wheeler.
9/09, Diva Magazine: Fit and fat: could the diet dogma be wrong?, Louise Carolin.
8/31/09, MSNBC TV, Dr. Nancy:The War on Fat People, Nancy Snyderman.
8/27/09, Newsweek: Who says Americans are Too Fat, Daniel Heimpel.
8/26/09, Newsweek: America’s War on the Overweight, Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin.
8/19/09, MSN: Fat and fit?!, Hugh Wilson.
8/5/09, The Sydney Morning Herald: Women Fight for Fat Acceptance.
8/3/09, NPR: The "Costs of Obesity: A discussion with Dr. William Dietz (Director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the CDC), Linda Bacon, and others." Follow this link for the follow-up letter that colleagues and I wrote to Dietz.
7/27/09, Contra Costa Times: Big Love: Large Women Celebrate Their Size, Jessica Yadegaran.
7/24/09, UC Davis Newswatch: Why Diets Don't Work, Paul Pfotenhauer.
7/22/09, UC Davis Newswatch: UC Davis Nutritionist Advises: Save Your Money on Diet Books, Paul Pfotenhauer.
7/8/09, The WIP (Women's International Perspective): "Fat Activists" Seek Law Banning Weight Discrimination, Mridu Khullar.
7/7/09, The Washington Post: It Wouldn't Kill You to Lose a Few Pounds. Or Would It?, Jennifer LaRue Huget.
Here are a few links from earlier times:
11-12/08, Diversity Woman: Size Doesn't Matter, Samme Chittum.
10/5/08, The New York Times Magazine: Losing the Weight Stigma, Robin Marantz Henig.
8/30/07, Med Journal Watch: Interview with Linda Bacon on Weight and Health, Christian Bachmann.
8/27/07, ABC7 News:Overweight People Paying Fat Premiums.
12/4/06, LA Times: Cutting the Obesity Epidemic Down to Size.
9/13/06, East Bay Express: Fat! Fit? Fabulous! Meet the East Bay Activists and Researchers at the Center of the New Civil-Rights Movement Known as Health at Every Size., Lauren Gard.
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