safefood Podcast

Nutrition: What is weight stigma?

September 17, 2020 safefood Episode 15
safefood Podcast
Nutrition: What is weight stigma?
Show Notes

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode we talk to Dr Grace O’Malley, who leads the obesity research and care group in the University of Medicine and Health Sciences; patient advocate Susie Birney from European Coalition for People Living with Obesity; and media trainer and former BBC journalist Sarah Travers. During the episode Sarah refers Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach and Susie refers to the video Ytisebo and obesity – what’s the difference?