In a recent comment piece in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Professor Rachel Batterham highlights the indisputable evidence of the detrimental impact of weight-stigma on health and calls for action to eradicate weight stigma. This post summarises the piece and links to the full article.
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In this new documentary, OEN UK founding member, Professor Rachel Batterham and OEN UK Champion, Nadya Isack meet people living with obesity and leading experts (including OEN UK Trustee, Professor Sadaf Farooqi), to consider what needs to be done to take meaningful action to improve health outcomes for people living with obesity.
Continue reading “New documentary explores why people develop obesity and the most recent available treatments”World Obesity Day 2022: Time to challenge weight stigma faced by children and young people
Join us on the 4th March 2022 to mark World Obesity Day.
Continue reading “World Obesity Day 2022: Time to challenge weight stigma faced by children and young people”Ending weight stigma in the context of anaesthesia: conversations with people affected by obesity
In November 2021, the Society for Obesity & Bariatric Anaesthesia published new guidance for anaesthetists on talking with patients living with obesity about perioperative risk and providing informed consent in a way that is accurate and sensitive to the specific needs of this patient group. We spoke with Maggie Clinton, OEN Champion and patient advocate, and Dimitri Pournaras, Consultant in Bariatric Surgery at North Bristol NHS Trust, about the new guidance and its role in ending weight stigma in anaesthetics and beyond.
Continue reading “Ending weight stigma in the context of anaesthesia: conversations with people affected by obesity”Introducing Dame Jenni Murray as Patron of OEN
OEN Trustees are delighted to announce Dame Jenni Murray as Patron of the Network at our Annual General Meeting 2022. In this post, Jenni shares why the OEN mission matters to her and how she hopes to see things change for people affected by obesity.
Continue reading “Introducing Dame Jenni Murray as Patron of OEN”Framing obesity, ending stigma: The change we need to see in the media
It is increasingly recognised that weight-based stigma in the media negatively impacts people with obesity in multiple life domains. Nadya Isack, OEN Champion and advocate, spoke with Liv Sewell about the changes those working in the media can make to end stigmatisation and discrimination against people with obesity.
Continue reading “Framing obesity, ending stigma: The change we need to see in the media”Thin = happy + successful: the impact of stigmatising media content on people living with obesity
It is now widely recognised that negative attitudes towards people living with obesity are embedded in our society through media content. Liv Sewell spoke with Nadya Isack, OEN Champion and advocate, about her experience of living with obesity and the impact of stigmatising media content on people affected by overweight or obesity.
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Research published this week by Ipsos MORI has shown that people living with obesity are nearly twice as likely to report poor mental health, compared to people with a healthy weight as measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI). OEN UK Champion Nadya Isack, and obesity advocate Sarah Le Brocq, spoke with Riz Lateef on the BBC Radio London about the impact of weight stigma on the mental health of people living with obesity.
Continue reading “Mental health & obesity”Obesity Health Alliance Launches Healthy Weight Strategy
Obesity Health Alliance have published their 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy laying out a long-term agenda for UK Government action which makes it possible for everyone to move towards attaining, sustaining and enjoying improved wellbeing and healthy weight.
Continue reading “Obesity Health Alliance Launches Healthy Weight Strategy”Weight Stigma in the media
People living with overweight or obesity face pervasive stigmatisation, social devaluation, and discrimination based on their body size. OEN UK has launched the ‘Stand Up to Weight Stigma’ campaign to highlight the nature and extent of this discrimination in various different settings and bring change.
OEN member, Liv Sewell spoke with Dr Stuart W. Flint, Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity at the University of Leeds, about the extent and impact of weight-based stigma in the media. In this post Liv summarises what we know…
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